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MaNuEL - Knowledge Hub Malnutrition in the Elderly

Project

Food and consumer protection

This project contributes to the research aim 'Food and consumer protection'. Which funding institutions are active for this aim? What are the sub-aims? Take a look:
Food and consumer protection


Project code: 2815ERA06E
Contract period: 01.04.2016 - 31.03.2018
Budget: 40,000 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research

The general objectives of the project (part of the Strategic Research Agenda of the Joint Programming Initiative 'A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life” – JPI HDHL) are: Knowledge gain MaNuEL will summarize presently available and extend scientific knowledge regarding the definition, prevalence, effective screening and aetiology of malnutrition in older persons and regarding effective interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition in older persons in different health care settings across Europe. Thus, MaNuEL will complete the present fragmentary picture on malnutrition and will identify knowledge gaps, which have to be addressed in future projects. Strengthen evidence-based best practice MaNuEL will translate scientific knowledge into effective evidence-based strategies and derive recommendations regarding screening and identification of persons who will benefit from nutritional interventions. The project will contribute to identifying effective nutritional interventions, will suggest validated methods for future assessment of determinants of malnutrition, and will raise awareness for different needs of specific subgroups of older persons. Capacity building MaNuEL will develop a productive and sustainable competence network of researchers from various countries with complementary expertise in the field of malnutrition in older persons. It will support transnational communication, collaboration and coordination between individual researchers, research groups, European research organisations and other stakeholders, and thus contribute to a common understanding as basis for future collaboration and better comparability of work. Harmonisation MaNuEL will promote harmonisation of screening and assessment of malnutrition in older persons in current practice as well as future research. It will stimulate harmonisation of clinical practice, policies and education with regard to malnutrition. Also harmonisation of data collection, databases and data analyses will take place within MaNuEL. MaNuEL is built on five interconnected malnutrition work packages (WP 1-5) and one management WP (WP6). The malnutrition WPs cover the different domains important to malnutrition in older persons, including its definition (WP 1), optimal screening (WP2), determinants (WP3) and optimal prevention and treatment (WP4), as well as implementation of evidence-based knowledge in clinical practice, policy and education (WP5). Within MaNuEL high-quality and cost-effective scientific research will be conducted by performing secondary data analyses of data from already conducted malnutrition intervention studies in older persons (WP1) as well as data from observational (cohort) studies (WP3). Moreover, MaNuEL will include several systematic literature reviews to increase the evidence base on malnutrition in older persons. These reviews will identify evidence-based determinants of (treatable) malnutrition in older persons (WP3) as well as effective non-pharmacological interventions for malnutrition in older persons (WP4). An important characteristic of MaNuEL is its focus on translating the scientific evidence to clinical practice. In WP2 an overview of screening tools for malnutrition in older persons will be created, including a thorough review of the psychometric properties of these tools and the settings in which they have been applied. From this overview a ranking will be created and preferred screening tools with excellent psychometric properties will be selected and communicated to stimulate high-quality and harmonized screening in the field. The scientific and practice-based information obtained in WPs 1-4 will be directly used in WP5. DIfE will contribute to WP1, WP2 and WP3.

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