Synopsis:
This video tape includes the discussion of: osteoporosis; nutrition assessment; anthropometrics; body mass index; activities of daily living (ADL’s); malnutrition in the elderly; PEU among the elderly; obesity in older adults; group comparisons of admission illness severity, hospitalization and outcomes after adjusting for admission illness severity; oral nutrition supplements; nutrition support; in-hospital complication risk and admission albumin; weight loss and one-year mortality; lifetime weight patterns; protein requirements; fluid requirements; energy requirements; effects of energy intake on nitrogen balance in young men; contributors to inadequate nutrient consumption; tube feeding; CAT Scan; PRMST, and other important issues
Objectives:
After completing this Video Tape, you should be able to:
- Describe age related changes in body composition;
- Discuss the risks of weight change (gain/loss) in later years; and
- Identify management strategies for weight management in older people.
Faculty:
Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA is the Director of the Arkansas Geriatrics Education Center (AGEC), as well as Associate Director for Education at the DWR Institute on Aging at UAMS and the Geriatric Research and Clinical Center (GRECC), Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS), Little Rock, AR. She is a Professor of Geriatrics in the College of Medicine as well as a Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the College of Public Health. Dr. Chernoff’s expertise lies in the area of nutritional support and pressure ulcers healing.
Tamara B. Harris, MD, PhD is a medical advisor for the Gerontological Epidemiology Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, is the Chief of the Geriatric Epidemiology Office in the Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry Program at the National Institute on Aging Public Health Service. Dr. Harris focuses her work in the area of population trends of nutritional issues in older people.
Gordon Lee Jensen, MD, PhD has worked extensively in the areas of obesity and the elderly and nutrition problems in the rural elderly. An Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterolgy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr. Jensen is the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Human Nutrition, Nashville, TN.
Dennis H. Sullivan, MD is the Director of GRECC at CAVHS and the Executive Vice-Chairman of the DWR Dept. of Geriatrics, UAMS. An Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at UAMS, Dr. Sullivan is an expert on malnutrition in hospitalized elderly patients.