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January 1, 2023
Social interaction restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemicPandemic, COVID-19 multiply the adverse effects of social isolationIsolation, social on community-dwelling older adultsAdult, older, bringing potentially long-lasting adverse healthHealthoutcomesO ...
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January 1, 2023
The authors of Integrated Scienceof Global EpidemicsEpidemics, global were asked how they would see the futureFuture of their field 30 years later. This Chapter presents the authors’ views on how futureFuture epidemics are in 2050, along with thoughts abou ...
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February 18, 2022
Essential vitamins and minerals are also known as micronutrients. They are uniquely required for essential biological and structural functions in the body, including as hormones, antioxidants, and enzyme cofactors and for one-carbon metabolism and DNA synt ...
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January 1, 2022
Optimal nutrition is an essential element for the quality of life and health in older adults. Energy needs and thus food intake decrease with age, while requirements for other nutrients remain stable or increase. Thus, older adults are at greater risk for ...
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January 1, 2019
Type 2 diabetes has long been a major health concern for older adults, as it is strongly associated with age-related declines in insulin sensitivity. However, recent demographic trends have precipitated an unprecedented increase in the occurrence of diabet ...
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April 19, 2016
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January 1, 2016
The aim of this book chapter is to describe the beneficial properties of a Mediterranean diet in regard to healthy, overweight, and obese older adults, and to summarize the characteristics, prevalence, pathophysiology, impact, and controversial nature of l ...
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January 1, 2015
This is the new and fully revised third edition of the well-received text that is the benchmark book in the field of nutrition and aging. The editors (specialists in geriatric nutrition, medical sociology, and clinical nutrition, respectively) and contribu ...
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January 1, 2015
By the year 2050, the number of persons with dementia aged 65 and older in the United States is expected to increase from 5.4 to 16 million persons [1]. While most persons with dementia (PWD) prefer to be cared for in their home environment, as the disease ...
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December 22, 2012
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January 1, 2009
In accompaniment with a rapidly increasing proportion of older adults (global graying), the worldwide trend is toward illness and death due to chronic diseases rather than infectious ones.China has one of the most rapidly “graying” populations of any count ...
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January 1, 2009
Complex emergencies (CEs) can occur anywhere and are defined as crisis situations that greatly elevate the risk to nutrition and overall health (morbidity and mortality) of older individuals in the affected area.In urban areas with high population densitie ...
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January 1, 2009
Nutritional frailty is an unintentional, precipitous loss of both lean and fat mass resulting almost entirely from a reduction in food intake.Unintentional weight loss is associated with functional decline and increased mortality.Efforts to minimize nutrit ...
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January 1, 2007
Optimal nutritional status plays a critical role in successful aging, contributing to both health and quality of life.1 One key determinant of dietary intake and thus nutritional status in the later years of life is living situation, since living environme ...
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January 1, 2005
The problem of obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States (see also other chapters by Boan and McMahon), and evidence of its negative impact on health is rapidly accumulating. Excessive body mass, defined as a body-mass index (BMI) over ...
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