Nutritional management

Nutritional (or dietary) management aims to achieve and maintain an appropriate nutritional status and supply of necessary nutrients in people with (or at risk for) malnutrition. Malnutrition refers to undernutrition, overweight or micronutrientrelated malnutrition. Nutritional management includes diet modification, provision of adequate nutritional supplements (oral or enteral feeding) or modification of food and fluid consistency to ensure safe food intake. Nutritional management includes education and advice on appropriate diet.