Geriatric Nutrition: A Comprehensive Review - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0781701694 ISBN 13 : 9780781701693

Editeur : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1995

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0781701694
• ISBN 13: 9780781701693
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Éditeur: Morley John, Etc.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible