Nutrition and Aging

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Theoretical classes to present updated content and the respective application of concepts based on the practice and discussion of articles with students. The theoretical-practical classes will be fundamentally supported in the resolution of clinical cases and also based on interrogative methods.

1- Know how to select and use tools to identify risk and assess the nutritional status of the elderly person;
2- Identify changes in nutritional status and implement appropriate nutritional therapy;
3- Adapt nutritional intervention in the elderly in particular clinical situations;
4- Develop nutritional and behavioral strategies that facilitate a better quality of life, give life to years both in particular clinical situations and in inexorable aging.
5- Demonstrate solid scientific knowledge in the area of dietetics and nutrition to treat patients from the nutritional point of view and contribute to patient improvement;
6-have increased skills to work in multidisciplinary teams.

Epidemiology and pathophysiology of aging;

Determinants and assessment of the nutritional status of the elderly;

nutritional assessment and intervention of the elderly;

Main nutritional problems of the elderly Anorexia and Malnutrition Obesity;

Methods of prevention and treatment of nutritional problems of the elderly, practical advice, nutrition in aging;

Nutritional supplementation, polymedication and adherence to therapy;

Physiological changes, nutritional needs and recommendations in the elderly. The benefits of nutrition in aging;

Chronic pathology and geriatric syndromes;

Provision of nutritional care in geriatric institutions;

Nutritional education, the elderly and caregivers;

Enteral feeding by tube when and how?

Sarcopenia;

Nutrition and cancer in the elderly;

Active and healthy aging;

Managing affections in old age, the caregiver.

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primary bibliography

ALIX, E. ; FERRY, M. – A nutrição da pessoa idosa. Coimbra : Lusodidacta, 2004.

Secondary bibliography

BOYLE, Marie A. ; HOLBEN, David H. – Community nutrition in action : an entrepreneurial approach. 5th ed. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, cop. 2010
CHERNOFF, Ronni, ed. lit. – Geriatric nutrition : the health professional’s handbook. Fourth edition. Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, cop. 2014
WORTHINGTON-ROBERTS, Bonnie S. ; WILLIAMS, Sue Rodwell ; JOHNSON, Donna B., ed. lit. – Nutrition throughout the life cycle. 4th ed. Boston ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill, cop. 2000
MAHAN, L. Kathleen ; ESCOTT-STUMP, Sylvia, ed. lit. – Krause’s food & nutrition therapy. 12th ed. St. Louis : Saunders/Elsevier, cop. 2008
EDELSTEIN, Sari, ed. lit. – Nutrition in public health : a handbook for developing programs and services. Third edition.
Sudbury, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, cop. 2011.
ESCOTT-STUMP, Sylvia – Nutrition and diagnosis-related care. Eighth edition. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, cop. 2015.