[Focus on nutrition improves the effect of rehabilitation in geriatric patients]

As a consequence of the loss of physical function more than half of the geriatric patients are discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan. Only a few patients are, however, discharged with a nutritional rehabilitation plan. Data suggest that about 60% of the geriatric patients who are discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan never start the rehabilitation, often due to readmissions. Presumably, this figure could be lowered if a nutritional intervention was initiated. Hence, geriatric patients discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan should simultaneously be discharged with a nutritional rehabilitation plan.