Martin PM, et al. - Authors conducted a prospective, multicentre, observational study to evaluate nutritional status, quality of life (QoL) and function in malnourished or at risk for malnutrition community-dwelling (CD) and nursing home-dwelling (NHD) elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), receiving treatment with a diabetes-specific oral nutritional supplement (DSONS). They observed that the treatment with the high-calorie, high-protein, with slow-digestible carbohydrate, and high MUFA content DSNOS -Glucerna® 1.5 Cal-, was linked with improvements in HbA_1c, nutritional status, BMI and QoL following 6 weeks and 3 months of treatment in both institutionalised and non-institutionalised elderly patients with diabetes who were malnourished or at risk for malnutrition. At 12 weeks, a slight improvement in functional status was also noted.