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Professional society site for parenteral and enteral nutrition, publishing clinical guidelines, nutrition support standards, and practice resources. Readers can follow evidence-based recommendations on malnutrition screening, tube feeding, and intravenous nutrition in hospital and home care.
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ESPEN
Site of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, publisher of widely used clinical nutrition guidelines and the LLL continuing-education programme. Provides guidance on malnutrition screening, enteral and parenteral nutrition, and nutrition care in conditions such as cancer, ICU admission and liver disease.
IDDSI Framework: Standardised Texture-Modified Food and Thickened Drink Levels
The international standard describing texture-modified foods and thickened drinks on one eight-level scale. Free detailed descriptors, fork-drip and syringe flow testing methods and evidence statements let a caregiver prepare and objectively verify a consistency that is safe to swallow. Swallowing difficulty is one of the main reasons older adults stop eating enough, and this is the only source that turns 'soft diet' into measurable, testable levels.
ESPEN Practical Guideline: Clinical Nutrition and Hydration in Geriatrics
Condensed version of ESPEN's 82 evidence-graded recommendations for nutrition and hydration in older people. Covers screening, energy and protein targets, oral nutritional supplements, tube feeding, dehydration, and whether weight loss is appropriate, with decision flowcharts.