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July 2005

Free Webcast: Nutrition in Older Adults

So much is at stake when nutritional status is impaired and there are so many interventions that can you can make to reduce this problem that affects quality of life and cost and quality of care for older adults.

• Do you know the half life of serum albumin and how dated its reflection on nutritional status might be compared to other visceral proteins?
• What can you teach families and patients to increase the quality of their nutritional intake in the home setting?
• How many times have you included a can of Ensure with a meal, or an hour or so before a meal, and didnt think about how that would affect ones appetite for realfood?
• Have you ever thought about how your behavior and the eating environment might be adapted to improve mood, prompt appetite and increase food intake?

Drs. Rose Ann DiMaria and Elaine Amella outline steps you can take to better assess nutritional status and provide cost-effective and practical interventions you can implement in your practice to improve the nutritional status of older adults.

Follow this link to access the 60-minute webcast anytime beginning Tuesday, 11 July 2005: www.NursingCenter.com/AJNolderadults.

This program will remain available, on demand, through 2006. (Previous broadcasts are archived and also available at the same link.)

This is the fifth in a series of 18 Webcasts is a collaborative effort between the American Journal of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and PRIMEDIA Healthcare, sponsored in part through a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies. The broadcast series is designed to provide information and skills to improve the care and well-being of older adults. If you have any questions about the broadcast (or the associated print series), please contact Katherine Kany, Project Manager, at 703-729-6050 or katherinekany@adelphia.net.