With 76 million individuals born between 1946 and 1964 turning age 65 at the rate of 8000 a day, health care professionals are encountering a growing number of problems associated with an aging society and their nutritional needs. Revised and updated with the latest data in this changing field, Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook, Fourth Edition, prepares students and health professionals with practical, current information that can be readily applied to assessing nutrition status, preventing and managing disease, and creating more effective health promotion strategies for older adults. Leading experts in geriatric nutrition contributed the most current information that examines the impact of aging on organ systems and addresses the relationship among physiologic aging, nutrition, and disease. It explores the role of nutrition in the maintenance of health, the management of chronic conditions, and the treatment of serious illness in the elderly. Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional’s Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a must-have resource carefully applied to nutrition practice that can be put to immediate use in the classroom or on the job.
- ISBN: 9780763782627
- Editorial: JONES AND BARTLETT PUBLISHERS
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 582
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2014
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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