1/ 🧵 Nutritional value is crucial to maintaining strength, whether ill or recovering. You should eat differently, but you don't always need to eat more. I observed closely the possible outcomes of this not being addressed.

My uncle stayed at a care facility while having Parkinson's illness. He was hospitalized when he acquired pneumonia. In the care home, he had dropped a lot of weight, but he recovered fast once he was tube-fed in the hospital.

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