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Many of these individuals depend on informal or family caregivers for nutritional care, including assistance with grocery shopping meal preparation, feeding, and monitoring dietary intake. Thus, informal caregivers play an increasingly central role in supporting dietary intake and maintaining nutritional status. This narrative review aims at assessing the relationship between informal caregiver involvement and malnutrition in community-dwelling older adults who are dependent for nutritional-related needs, summarizing evidence on caregiver\u2019s role and caregiver-associated determinants of malnutrition, as well as on interventions that incorporate caregivers into nutrition care. We discuss factors associated with malnutrition in later life, with particular emphasis on caregiver knowledge, burden, interventions and outcomes. In addition, caregiver-inclusive models of care and tools, including nutrition education and guidelines\/recommendations, medical nutrition therapy, and multidisciplinary care models will be addressed. Methods: A structured review of the literature was conducted (date of last search December 2025), searching multiple databases for pertinent articles. Following identification of eligible articles for inclusion, a narrative synthesis of evidence was completed. Results and Conclusions: Despite the high degree of heterogeneity in methodology, observational studies demonstrate that several caregiver attributes influence the nutritional status of care recipients, including caregiver\u2019s own nutritional status, burden, knowledge and literacy, psychosocial, environmental and economic factors. Intervention studies show that caregiver-focused, -inclusive and -delivered interventions have a positive impact on several outcomes, including improved older care recipient dietary intakes, nutritional status and quality of life without impacting on caregiver burden. Thus, strengthening caregiver support and integrating caregivers into nutrition screening and intervention frameworks may represent a critical opportunity to reduce malnutrition risk and improve health outcomes among older adults. Still, significant gaps remain in caregiver-focused intervention research, particularly in diverse cultural and social contexts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu18060982","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,19]],"date-time":"2026-03-19T15:38:01Z","timestamp":1773934681000},"page":"982","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["The Role of Caregivers in Preventing and Managing Malnutrition Among Older Adults: A Narrative Review"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Michela","family":"Zanetti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Postgraduate Residency Program in Geriatrics, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy"},{"name":"Geriatric Clinic, Maggiore University Hospital, Piazza Dell\u2019ospitale 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy"},{"name":"Undergraduate Program in Dietetics, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 33170 Pordenone, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paolo","family":"De Colle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geriatric Clinic, Maggiore University Hospital, Piazza Dell\u2019ospitale 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matteo","family":"Bianchini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Postgraduate Residency Program in Geriatrics, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy"},{"name":"Geriatric Clinic, Maggiore University Hospital, Piazza Dell\u2019ospitale 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-0949-1410","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dario","family":"Calandrino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geriatric Clinic, Maggiore University Hospital, Piazza Dell\u2019ospitale 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sabrina","family":"Rampazzo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Undergraduate Program in Dietetics, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 33170 Pordenone, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-8594-135X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luisa","family":"Solimando","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, 00131 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9328-289X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicola","family":"Veronese","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, 00131 Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Primary Care Department, Unit\u00e0 Locale Socio-Sanitaria 3 \u201cSerenissima\u201d, 30174 Venice, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"951","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(22)02612-5","article-title":"Malnutrition in older adults","volume":"401","author":"Dent","year":"2023","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"100583","DOI":"10.1016\/j.puhip.2025.100583","article-title":"Global prevalence of malnutrition in older adults: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis","volume":"9","author":"Salari","year":"2025","journal-title":"Public Health Pract."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"131","DOI":"10.1016\/j.nutos.2025.07.006","article-title":"Prevalence of malnutrition and risk of malnutrition in complex chronic outpatients","volume":"63","author":"Lecha","year":"2025","journal-title":"Clin. 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