HLSC-3345 Nutrition, Health, and Aging
The course is designed to help students gain knowledge about age related physiological and psychosocial changes, diseases, and environmental factors affecting the nutritional needs of older adults, and learn strategies and tools to provide good quality of nutrition care to older adults at different levels of health and functional status. Some of the topics to be covered includes foods and nutrients in the health and well-being of older adults; effects of aging, disease, and medications on the need and metabolism of nutrients; effects of sociodemographic, economic, cultural, and environmental factors on nutritional status and service need of older adults.