The “Nutri CP” application aims to guide nutritionists in
decision making regarding nutritional interventions
aimed at elderly people in palliative care, with support
of scientific literature.
It has:
* Step by step user access, with the following
topics: presentation, assessment tools, assessment
nutritional, symptom management in palliative care,
bioethical aspects for decision making, support
nutrition in palliative care, monitoring
nutritional and references;
* Presents the assessment instruments necessary for the
approach to palliative care;
* Presents possible nutritional assessment methods for
elderly people in palliative care; In the review thread
anthropometric and nutritional semiology, the user can
carry out the assessment by filling in the data and obtaining the
result;
* Presents the importance of managing symptoms and how to do it;
•Presents the principles of bioethics, the aspects considered
in terminality, the assessment of decision-making capacity and the
advance directives.
•Addresses the topics necessary to guide the nutritionist
regarding the choice of nutritional therapy;
•It presents how the nutritional monitoring of the
patient in palliative care;
•Presents the references used in the content of the
application.
It is available on Android and iOS platforms