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 | Title: | Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook | | Pub. date: | 2006 | | Edition: | 3rd | | Includes: | Textbook | | Audience: | Nutrition Educators | | Language: | English | | Description: | "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. 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." |
| Developer: | Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA | | Length: | 575 pages | | Reviewers Comments: | This comprehensive book discusses all aspects of nutrition for older adults. Chapters include nutritional status and assessment, aggressive nutrition interventions, drug nutrient effects, health promotion, secondary and tertiary disease prevention and management, and nutrition services for older adults. The book is written on a professional level, and may contain complex terminology difficult for those who do not have a background in nutrition. Each chapter includes a list of references at the end. Because of the breadth of information contained and the succinct way it is written, this is a great reference book for those interested in learning about geriatric nutrition. |
Borrow it from the National Agricultural Library (NAL)
SNAP staff/SNAP-Ed providers can borrow materials from NAL through interlibrary loan. | | NAL Call No.: | RC952.5 .G44342 2006 | | Go to Request Library Materials | | | | Contact the Distributor: | | Distributor: | Jones and Bartlett Publishers | | Mail: | 40 Tall Pine Drive
Sudbury, MA 01776 | | Phone: | 973-443-5000 | | Fax: | 978-443-8000 | | E-mail: | info@jbpub.com | | Order URL: | http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9780763731816/ | | Cost: | 142.95 per textbook | | Avail. in Qty: | No | | ISBN: | ISBN 13:978-0-7637-3181-6 ISBN 10:0-7637-3181-1 |
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