factors that can cause poor appetite or poor food intake
1. difficulties shopping for food
2. financial constraints
3. lack of facilities for cooking or food storage
4. lack of cooking skills
5. visual impairment
6. mental illness (e.g. depression)
7. Neurological disease (e.g. dementia, parkinson's disease, stroke)
8. chronic debilitating disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, osteoporosis, arthritis)