Screening for malnutrition is important in the older person.

The consequences of malnutrition include increasing frailty, mortality and likelihood of falling ill.

The factors contributing to malnutrition are many including medical conditions, physiological changes with ageing and also psychosocial factors.

A Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) should be conducted on an older person with malnutrition as it is usually multifactorial in cause.