Objective: This review will explore nutrition education strategies for older adults with a neurocognitive disorder and their informal caregivers in health care settings. Introduction: Nutrition education enables older adults with a neurocognitive disorder and their informal caregivers to manage their health autonomously. However, characteristics of neurocognitive disorders, such as memory loss or anosognosia, make it difficult to implement education strategies. Eligibility criteria: This review will include studies on nutrition education for older adults diagnosed with a neurocognitive disorder at any disease stage and their informal caregivers, provided the nutrition education occurs within health care settings. Eligible studies will be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed method studies in English or Japanese. Methods: Searches will be conducted in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost), Open Access Theses and Dissertations, and Ichushi-Web (Japan Medical Abstracts Society). Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts. Data extraction will focus on the characteristics of nutrition education (target population, methods, evaluation), as well as facilitators and barriers. Quantitative data will be summarized using descriptive statistics, while qualitative data will be analyzed through descriptive qualitative content analysis. The review will follow the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and will be reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Review registration: OSF https://osf.io/umxdg/
Kawada et al. (Sun,) studied this question.