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[Kathy Cope]

A new manual "Malnutrition in the Elderly -- A National Crisis" is available
from:

        Superintendent of Documents
        Government Printing Office
        Washington, DC 20402
        Telephone: 202-512-1800
Stock No. 017-062-00147-2
Cost $6.50 for individual copies  (includes shipping costs)

This book is a focus on the problems, causes, consequences and solutions to
the problem of malnutrition in the elderly.  It provides simple, easy to use
screening tools designed by the National Nutrition Screening Initiative.

This manual concisely, conceptually and graphically identifies how
malnutrition in the elderly contributes to disease, illness, disability,
death, escalates health care costs and decreases quality of life.