Hospital nurses and home care providers' experiences of participation in nutritional care among older persons and their family caregivers: a qualitative study.

Healthcare professionals were aware of the importance of actively engaging older persons and their family members in the nutritional care to achieve positive outcomes. However, they encountered individual and structural barriers, including resistance from patients and family caregivers, conflicts between the patients' nutritional wishes and standard nutritional procedures, a wish to shield the family caregivers from the stress of caring for a sick relative, and lack of time and caring structures that facilitate the older persons and their family's active participation.