And, rightly so. Afterall, life-expectancy upon entrance to a nursing home is, on average, only six months. Here's the point.
Nursing homes are scary enough without the additional prospect of malnutrition.
In the past, malnutrition may have been imposed by uncaring staff in questionable facilities. In other cases, malnutrition may have been self-induced by patients bent on attempting erosive suicide. In any case, something needs to be done because malnutrition is a major problem in nursing homes. Over the last decade a number of methods for improving the nutrition of older persons in nursing homes have been published. However, these are often not used and persons with treatable causes of malnutrition often fail to get appropriate treatment.