Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nutrition in Elderly
- Important nutritional requirements
- For bone health
- Calcium
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin C
- Immunity & absorption
- Recommend foods that are wasier to eat
- Physcial changes that make it difficult to each requirements
- dental decay - no tough foods
- become forgetful
- cannot move and buy grocery
- lost ability to see/hear
- Spectrum of aging (NB)
- Gerontology
- Study of normal aging
- Derived from science
- Biology
- Physiology
- Sociology
- Focus on
- Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Risk reduction
- Geriatrics
- Study of (chronic) diseases frequently associated with aging
- Geriatric nutrition (MNT)
- Hospitals, homes, communities
- Theories of aging
- no single theorie explains
- 1% Rule (NB)
- 1% organ function lost every year of 30
- Categories
- Predetermination
- Built-in mechanisms that determine again + death
- Accumulated damage
- Systemic damage
- over time
- Nutrition & Longevity
- Improve quality of life
- Prevent/manage NCDs
- Improve everyday wellbeing