Nutrition for Healthy Ageing: Essential Care Practices
Develop a comprehensive understanding of elderly nutrition and elevate your ability to provide exceptional care through specialized dietary expertise.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of elderly nutrition and elevate your ability to provide exceptional care through specialized dietary expertise.
Explore the critical role of nutrition in healthy ageing with this comprehensive course designed for caregivers and healthcare professionals. Learn to address the unique nutritional needs of older adults, understand the impact of diet on disease prevention, and develop practical skills for creating balanced meal plans. Gain insights from healthcare experts on enhancing everyday health for the elderly, and discover how social factors influence eating behaviors. This course equips you with essential knowledge and tools to provide optimal nutritional care for older individuals.
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What you'll learn
Understand the fundamentals of nutrition and its role in healthy ageing
Apply nutritional knowledge to improve care practices for older adults
Create balanced meal plans using professional recommendations
Implement tips and tools recommended by healthcare experts
Recognize and address malnutrition risks in older individuals
Understand how social factors influence eating behaviors in the elderly
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Module Description
This course provides essential knowledge about nutrition requirements for older adults and its role in maintaining health and preventing disease. Participants will learn how the body's nutritional needs change with age and how to address these changes through proper diet and care practices. The curriculum covers fundamentals of nutrition in ageing, the impact of social settings on eating behavior, and practical approaches to creating balanced meal plans. Healthcare professionals and experts offer tips and tools for enhancing the everyday health of older individuals. The course is designed to equip caregivers, medical students, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in geriatric nutrition with the knowledge and skills to provide optimal nutritional care and support for older people.
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Nutrition Research and Clinical Dietetics Expert at Imperial College London
Gary Frost serves as Professor and Chair in Nutrition and Dietetics at Imperial College London, where he heads the Section for Nutrition Research and leads the Imperial Nutrition and Food Network. After qualifying as a dietitian in 1982, he built his career at Hammersmith Hospital for 18 years, during which he earned his PhD in Nutrition and became an Honorary Reader at Imperial College. His career path included a position as Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Surrey in 2005 before returning to Imperial College in 2008. His research innovations include developing wearable camera technology and AI tools for accurate diet monitoring, particularly through the CoDiet project, which aims to combat diet-related diseases through personalized nutrition approaches. His work spans clinical research in elderly nutrition, appetite regulation, dietary carbohydrates, food structure's influence on metabolism, and obesity management. As principal investigator on multiple major grants, including a £3 million project testing new diet-tracking technologies, he continues to advance the field through combining traditional nutritional science with innovative technological solutions.
Clinical Nutrition and Dementia Research Expert at Imperial College London
Karen Abbott serves as Research Assistant in the School of Public Health's Ageing Research unit at Imperial College London, where she combines her expertise in clinical nutrition with dementia research. After earning master's degrees in Clinical Nutrition from Imperial College and Broadcasting from Goldsmith College, University of London, she built a diverse career spanning technical and health sciences. Her research background includes work on iodine nutrition at ETH Zurich, while her technical experience as a Systems Specialist Engineer for the BBC and work at Stanford's Instructional Television Network brings a unique systems-based approach to health research. Currently pursuing her PhD in nutrition and dementia at Imperial, she brings personal insight to her research through her experience supporting family members with dementia. Her expertise extends to sports nutrition, holding certification from the International Society of Sports Nutritionists, while maintaining a holistic approach to nutrition and health influenced by her cross-disciplinary background.
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