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; ...
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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.
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Add this copy of Geriatric Nutrition: a Comprehensive Review to cart. $74.05, very good condition, Sold by BookHolders rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gambrills, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Raven Press (ID).
