Geriatric Nutrition: A Comprehensive Review - Hardcover

Morley, John E.; Glick, Zvi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0781701694 ISBN 13: 9780781701693

Verlag: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Updated and revised throughout, with a focus on clinical aspects, this multidisciplinary work presents up-to-date clinical and research findings of the special nutritional requirements of the elderly. The second edition features: helpful guidelines on nutritional assessment and support; practical tips on tailoring diets for patients with specific organ system dysfunction; current management approaches to age-related anorexia and protein-energy malnutrition; diagnosis and treatment of common vitamin and mineral deficiencies; preventative role of nutrition in age associated diseases; nutritional implications of systems malfunction in the elderly in age-related changes in the liver, kidney and gastrointestinal tract; nutritional implications in lipids abnormalities, diabetes mellitus, cancer and cardiac cachexia; and the changing ethical and legal standards of care regarding feeding and hydrating. New topics to this edition include: cancer and malnutrition; falls and nutrition; enteral and parenteral nutrition; nutrition misinformation - health fraud and the elderly population, creation of food fads for profit; and dysphagia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0781701694
• ISBN 13: 9780781701693
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Herausgeber: Rubenstein Laurence Z.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar