Recovering The Natural Way After Hospital Discharge

Main Category: Caregivers / Homecare
Also Included In: Public Health
Article Date: 29 Jun 2008 - 3:00 PDT

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Whatever your extent of hospitalisation and treatment, it can come as a shock to find how weakened you have become, when you are trying to return to normal home life. Whilst a hospital discharge plan will be designed to ensure you have the right level of home support, there are self-help nutritional considerations that can aid recovery and continued independent living.

Care Directions has asked Alex Shalet, Senior Nutritionist at The Nutri Centre to examine the various nutritional needs of the discharged hospital patient and to make a range of valuable recommendations for successful outcomes.

This comprehensive article is now available on the Care Directions' website. Go here.

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