Geriatric Nutrition
The Heath Professional's Handbook
Third edition
Ronni Chernoff, Ph.D., R.D., F.A.D.A.
Editor

25 CPEU or CE hours

Course: $178
Includes book & CE exam


CE exam only: $98

Description
Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional’s Handbook, Third Edition, offers 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 Third Edition of this best-selling text provides a comprehensive review of nutritional assessment, intervention programs for the elderly, and health promotion activities.
• Contributors are experts in the field and provide recent information and perspectives
• Addresses the relationship among physiologic aging, nutrition, and disease
• Examines the impact of aging on the organ system.

There are 23 contributors including the editor, all with a strong background in geriatrics, or nutrition and dietetics, or both. Three major areas are covered: basic nutritional requirements of the elderly, a body systems approach to age-related changes and relationship to nutritional needs, and six chapters on related topical areas including pharmacology and nutrition, nutritional support and services, nutrition and exercise in the elderly, and health promotion. Several chapters have been completely revised, including the gastrointestinal tract and health promotion. New chapters have been added on taste and smell changes in the elderly, as well as nutritional aspects of exercise.

Level: Advanced
ISBN: 0763731811
ISBN-13: 9780763731816
Format: Textbook Hardcover, 450pp
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Pub date: 2006
Edition Description: Revised Edition
Edition Number: 3

Contents
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1. Demographics of Aging
Chapter 2. Protein Metabolism and Requirements
Chapter 3. Carbohydrate, Fat, and Fluid Requirements in Older Adults
Chapter 4. Vitamin Metabolism and Requirements in the Elderly: Selected Aspects
Chapter 5. Mineral Requirements
Chapter 6. Trace Metal Requirements
Chapter 7. Smell, Taste, and Somatosensation in the Elderly
Chapter 8. Oral Health in the Elderly
Chapter 9. Swallowing Problems in Older Adults
Chapter 10. The Aging Gut
Chapter 11. Aging and the Cardiovascular System
Chapter 12. The Aging Renal System
Chapter 13. Impact of Nutrition on the Age-Related Declines in Hematopoiesis
Chapter 14. Skeletal Aging
Chapter 15. Endocrine Aspects of Nutrition and Aging
Chapter 16. Pharmacology, Nutrition, and the Elderly: Interactions and Implications
Chapter 17. The Geriatric Exercise Prescription: Nutritional Implications
Chapter 18. Nutritional Assessment of the Elderly
Chapter 19. Nutritional Support for the Older Adult
Chapter 20. Continuum of Nutrition Services for Older Americans
Chapter 21. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Elderly
Index

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 3
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
4030 Dietary guidelines, DRIs, Food Guide Pyramid, food labeling
4040 Disease prevention
4050 Epidemiology
4100 Social marketing
4120 Lifecycle
4190 Elderly nutrition
5100 Elderly
5390 Care planning, documentation and evaluation
5400 Case management
5410 Client protocols, clinical guidelines
5430 End of life care
5460 Self-care management