The management of patients with dysphagia requires the coordinated expertise of a number of health-care professionals including doctors, nurses, dieticians and occupational therapists, as well as the primary caregivers. Occupational therapists will be responsible for the screening and the management of the dysphagia program. The nurses at the Lung Unit are all introduced to the importance of the diet and the postural changes to prevent dysphagia, and they will take over when the program has been implemented. In this project there will be focus on dietary adjustments and postural changes. There is weak evidence for the effect of preventing dysphagia by using thickened liquids and changing the posture, but even then there is consensus for this practice among experienced occupational therapists (22). When discharged the patients will receive a brochure about the importance of maintaining the diet, it will be noted what diet they have to follow, and primary caregivers will also be informed. Three weeks after discharge the patient will be visited by a primary occupational therapist and a dietrist. The occupational therapist will retest the patient and the dietrist will make sure the patient keep weight. Both will have a dialogue with the patient about the importance of maintaining the diet.