Geriatric nutrition : a comprehensive review
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Geriatric nutrition : a comprehensive review
Raven Press, c1995
2nd ed
Available at 11 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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