Geriatric nutrition : a comprehensive review

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Geriatric nutrition : a comprehensive review

edited by John E. Morley, Zvi Glick, Laurence Z. Rubenstein

Raven Press, c1995

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Updated and revised throughout, with a focus on clinical aspects, this multidisciplinary work presents up-to-date clinical and research findings of the special nutritional requirements of the elderly. The second edition features: helpful guidelines on nutritional assessment and support; practical tips on tailoring diets for patients with specific organ system dysfunction; current management approaches to age-related anorexia and protein-energy malnutrition; diagnosis and treatment of common vitamin and mineral deficiencies; preventative role of nutrition in age associated diseases; nutritional implications of systems malfunction in the elderly in age-related changes in the liver, kidney and gastrointestinal tract; nutritional implications in lipids abnormalities, diabetes mellitus, cancer and cardiac cachexia; and the changing ethical and legal standards of care regarding feeding and hydrating. New topics to this edition include: cancer and malnutrition; falls and nutrition; enteral and parenteral nutrition; nutrition misinformation - health fraud and the elderly population, creation of food fads for profit; and dysphagia.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Nutrition and aging: nutrition epidemiology
  • theories of aging - nutritional aspects
  • energy balance
  • nutritional requirements of older persons
  • nutritional assessment of older persons
  • the role of nutrition in the prevention of age-associated diseases. Part 2 Nutritional deficiencies: anorexia of aging and protein-energy malnutrition
  • vitamin disorders
  • calcium, vitamin D and osteopenia
  • zinc metabolism
  • other trace elements
  • nutritional anaemias in older persons
  • water metabolism. Part 3 Systems malfunction and nutrition: modulation of age-associated immune dysfunction by nutritional intervention
  • the oral cavity and nutrition
  • gastrointestinal function and aging
  • the effect of age on the liver
  • nutrition and diabetes mellitus in older persons
  • lipids
  • nutritional interventions as anti-hypertensive therapy
  • obesity
  • cancer and malnutrition
  • cardiac cachexia
  • endocrine system
  • central nervous system and behaviour
  • the aging kidney
  • nutrition and the eye. Part 4 Special topics: nutrition support for elderly patients - enteral, parenteral
  • nutrition management in nursing homes
  • exercise, drug-food/food-drug interactions
  • dysphasia
  • pressure sores and nutrition
  • falls and nutrition
  • nutrition misinformation - health fraud and the elderly population-creation of food fads for profit
  • interdisciplinary teams for the solution of nutritional problems
  • choices about food and water - the emerging ethical and legal standard of care.

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