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1 -== Background ==
1 +== Background (repeated introduction section)==
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3 3  Decreased food consumption is commonly seen in people with dementia, leading to malnutrition, dehydration, decreased immune function, weight loss and less muscle strenght (Edahiro et al., 2012; "Poor appetite and dementia", 2022). Malnutrition is not only unhealthy for a person with dementia on the short term, but it has even been reported that malnutrition may influence the disease progression of people with Alzheimer's disease (Kigozi et al., 2021).
4 4  One of the major causes of this decreased food consumption is that people with dementia, especially when suffering from Alzheimer's disease, tend to forget to eat (Al-Anssari et al., 2021).