Geriatric Nutrition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Verlag)
978-0-7817-0169-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.1995 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 50 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 910 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie | |
| Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7817-0169-4 / 0781701694 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7817-0169-3 / 9780781701693 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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