Geriatric Nutrition
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Course Description
COURSE CONTENT
- Theories on aging
- Functional and somatic changes
- Nutritional status – malnutrition
- Nutritional and energy requirements
- Healthy diet for the elderly
- Nutrition therapy for some chronic diseases in older age (osteoporosis, sarcopenia)
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- evaluate the diet quality of individual, and nutritive value of menus intended for the organized diet of the elderly
- design and compose a menu that will enable adequate energy, macro- and micronutrients intake for older adults
- identify the causes and consequences of malnutrition in the elderly
- review how physiological changes and chronic diseases affect the nutritional needs of older adults
- determine the role of certain food components in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases characteristic for the elderly