Nutrition for Older People
Details
Course Overview
This Course examines the role that nutrition plays in healthy ageing and reinforces the need for ongoing assessment of an older person's nutritional requirements. Questions such as "what should older people eat?" and "why is good nutrition important as we age?" are discussed.
Topics include:
- Factors affecting an older person's nutrition
- The physiological changes associated with ageing
- Management strategies for older people with poor food intake
- Nutritional assessment
- Texture modified foodstuffs
Target audience
Health professionals working with older people in a variety of healthcare facilities, including respite and aged care homes, and acute, subacute and community settings.
Purpose
Reinforce knowledge of the important role that nutrition plays in healthy ageing.
Need
Adequate nutrition and hydration is vital to sustaining life, especially as people age. Unfortunately, many older people are not adequately nourished. A potential reason for this is that staff working in residential aged care facilities may lack sufficient knowledge regarding the nutritional needs of older people in their care.
Current evidence suggests that education to enhance the knowledge of staff in recognising and responding to older residents with compromised nutrition is needed. Paying careful attention to the nutritional needs of older adults in residential aged care can lead to a better quality of life, a greater sense of wellbeing, and improved clinical outcomes for these individuals.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain why good nutrition is important as people age
- Identify barriers to adequate nutrition in older people
- Describe the dietary requirements of older people
Disclosure
No conflict of interest exists for anyone in the position to control content for this activity. Wherever possible, generic or non-proprietary names of medications or products have been used.
Educator
Yvonne Coleman
Yvonne Coleman has worked as a dietitian for more than two decades in Aged Care, initially in the public health sector and currently as Founding Principal of Nutrition Consultants Australia. Nutrition Consultants Australia provides both a consultancy service to the Residential Aged Care Sector and is a micro publisher. Yvonne enjoys the challenge of balancing multiple medical problems with medications and nutrition See Educator Profile
Sonia Dalla Monta
Very interesting and well delivered.
Li Zhang
useful
Maria Zubcakova
Very informative
Donna Marguerite Murnane
Great source of information
Shazia Sabreen Ali
Well presented and easy to understand and reflect.
Dale Burnham
This video was extremely helpful and full of resourse information
Kelly Noakes
Comprehensive look at nutritional barriers for the elderly.
Mini Uthuppu
this resource reinforce my knowledge enlighten where to focus. and encouraged me to concentrate the week area and organize dirty requirements to overcome the barrier.
Peter O'Connor
Excellent
Lijia Fan
helpful