Objective of this stusy was to provide an assessment of nutritional status of patients affected by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) living at home and of their caregivers by means of Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), and to explore the influence of different factors on nutrition. Concludes that corrective measures should be taken in order to early identify nutritional deficiencies and risk of malnutrition observed with high rate in both groups of AD patients and their caregivers; in these subjects a nutrition education program and intervention policies are mandatory to restore nutritional status.
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