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Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook, Third Edition

Author(s): Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA, Associate Director, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763731816
  • ISBN-10:0763731811
  • Hardcover    575 pages      © 2006
Price: International Sales $128.95 US List
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Overview

Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional’s Handbook, Third Edition, offers you an authoritative reference to help you understand the role of nutrition in the maintenance of health, the management of chronic conditions, and the treatment of serious illness. The Third Edition of this best-selling text provides a comprehensive review of nutritional assessment, intervention programs for the elderly, and health promotion activities.

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Contributors are experts in the field and provide recent information and perspectives

Addresses the relationship among physiologic aging, nutrition, and disease

Examines the impact of aging on the organ system

New Chapters on:
     * Protein Metabolism and requirements
     * Macronutrient and fluid requirements
     * Swallowing problems in older adults
     * Skeletal Aging

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ShowTable of Contents

Chapter 1 Demographics of Aging
Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA
Chapter 2 Protein Metabolism and Requirements
Wayne W. Campbell, PhD, Nadine S. Carnell, MS, RD, and Anna E. Thalacker, BS
Chapter 3 Carbohydrate, Fat, and Fluid Requirements in Older Adults
Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA
Chapter 4 Vitamin Metabolism and Requirements in the Elderly: Selected Aspects
Paolo Suter, MD, MS
Chapter 5 Mineral Requirements
Robert D. Lindeman, MD
Chapter 6 Trace Metal Requirements
Gary Fosmire, PhD
Chapter 7 Smell, Taste, and Somatosensation in the Elderly
Valerie B. Duffy, PhD, RD, and Audrey K. Chapo, MS, RD
Chapter 8 Oral Health in the Elderly
Wendy E. Martin, DDS, Michèle Saunders, DDS, MS, MPH, and Susan P. Stattmiller
Chapter 9 Swallowing Problems in Older Adults
Joanne Robbins, PhD, and Stephanie Kays, MS
Chapter 10 The Aging Gut
David N. Moskovitz, MD, John Saltzman, MD, and Young-In Kim, MD, FRCP(C)
Chapter 11 Aging and the Cardiovascular System
Jeanne P. Goldberg, PhD
Chapter 12 The Aging Renal System
Robert D. Lindeman, MD
Chapter 13 Impact of Nutrition on the Age-Related Declines in Hematopoiesis
Gurkamal S. Chatta, MD, and Linda Barry Robertson, RN, MSN
Chapter 14 Skeletal Aging
Gustavo Duque, MD, PhD, and Bruce R. Troen, MD
Chapter 15 Endocrine Aspects of Nutrition and Aging
John E. Morley, MB, BCh
Chapter 16 Pharmacology, Nutrition, and the Elderly: Interactions and Implications
R. Rebecca Couris, PhD, RPh, Kathleen M. Gura, Pharm D, BCNSP, FASHP, and
Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, FACN, CNS
Chapter 17 The Geriatric Exercise Prescription: Nutritional Implications
Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, MD
Chapter 18 Nutritional Assessment of the Elderly
Carol O. Mitchell-Eady, PhD, RD and Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA
Chapter 19 Nutritional Support for the Older Adult
Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA
Chapter 20 A Continuum of Nutrition Services for Older Americans
Barbara Millen, DPH, RD, FADA, Lisa S. Brown, MS, RD, and Elyse Levine, PhD, RD
Chapter 21 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Elderly
Beverly J. McCabe, PhD, RD and Ruth E. Johnston, MS, RD


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA-Associate Director, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

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  • Geriatric Nutrition
  • Nutrition and the Elderly
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