Spread the Word Tools

Download the Malnutrition Awareness Week logo for digital or print use and add it to your website and other communications.

This document provides quick tips on how to organize Malnutrition Awareness Week activities at your institution.

It is important for patients, as well as caregivers and families, to be proactive and ask about their nutrition status. ASPEN has created two educational posters to help you recognize the signs of malnutrition, so you can talk to your healthcare provider about treatment. The posters are available in multiple languages.

Each day, approximately 15,000 hospital patients with malnutrition go undiagnosed. Patients with malnutrition have higher hospital costs, longer stays, and increased mortality. Please share these infographics on malnutrition with colleagues, patients and their families.

Looks can be deceiving. In some cases, it’s obvious. In others, it’s harder to detect.