This book offers a comprehensive review of nutritional assessment, intervention programs for the elderly, and health promotion activities. Geriatric Nutrition, Second Edition enhances the health professional's ability to provide comprehensive health care, advice, and treatment to older clients and patients. Thoroughly revised and updated, this Second Edition includes new chapters on smell, taste, and somatosensation; and on exercise.

Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook

CHERNOFF, RONNI

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jones& Bartlett Learning

This book offers a comprehensive review of nutritional assessment, intervention programs for the elderly, and health promotion activities.

Medical Books

Nursing

Updated to keep pace with changes in the field, Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional’s Handbook, Fourth Edition, offers you an authoritative reference to help you understand the role of nutrition in the maintenance of health, the management of chronic conditions, and the treatment of serious illness. The Fourth Edition of this best-selling text provides a comprehensive review of nutritional assessment, intervention programs for the elderly, and health promotion activities.

Diets & Weight Loss

Stem the tide of weight loss and illness for the elderly Across the country, the number of elders cared for in nursing homes is growing. Nutritional deficiencies that impact this population is a mounting concern. Nutrition and the Institutionalized Elderly presents recognized leaders in the field discussing the challenges facing geriatric health professionals in providing proper nutrition to the aging. This unique resource brings together in one place the current knowledge regarding feeding frail elders in the nursing home. The latest research is reviewed, focusing on how to best revise approaches to feeding the elderly that will limit problems with weight loss and other concerns. Nutrition and the Institutionalized Elderly comprehensively focuses on the reasons for poor nutrition in the aging, including poor oral health, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and dysphagia. The book examines micronutrient deficiencies common in institutionalized elders and the consequences of malnutrition that are often found, such as pressure ulcers. Problems reviewed include limited numbers of staff members, multiple co-morbidities, and inherent problems that led to the development of nutritional deficiency. This resource is useful to researchers, teachers, and front-line providers. Topics discussed in Nutrition and the Institutionalized Elderly include:  the negative effects of weight lossand the possible benefits of weight gain  treatment strategies for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia  oral health as an integral component of overall nutritional health  dysphagia screening tools and interventions  endothelial function and its link to pressure ulcers  low vitamin D status in the elderly, with approaches to counteract the problem  lutein deficiency and age-related ocular disorders Nutrition and the Institutionalized Elderly is an invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, dietitians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, occupational therapists, policymakers, and other geriatric health professionals.

Nutrition and the Institutionalized Elderly

Politics & Social Sciences

Bernard, Marie A

Sociology

CRC-Press

Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional’s Handbook, Third Edition, offers an authoritative reference that explores the role of nutrition in the maintenance of health, the management of chronic conditions, and the treatment of serious illness. Leading experts contribute articles that examine the impact of aging on organ systems and address the relationship among physiologic aging, nutrition, and disease. The Third Edition of this best-selling text provides a comprehensive review of nutritional assessment, intervention programs for the elderly, and health promotion activities. This edition has been extensively revised and includes new chapters on macronutrient and fluid requirements, swallowing problems in older adults, and skeletal aging.

Basic Sciences

ASPEN PUBLICATION

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Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook

Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook

Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook

Nutrition and the Institutionalized Elderly

Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook