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ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in dementia

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Nutritional care and support should be an integral part of dementia management in all stages of the disease, and the decision for or against nutritional interventions should be made on an individual basis after carefully balancing expected benefit and potential burden.
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This article is published in Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2015-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 291 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dementia & Cognitive decline.

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