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Applied principles in gerontology and geriatrics

Class at First Faculty of Medicine |
B90241

Annotation

Involutionary changes in organism at organ level and their effect on metabolism in older age.

Age-related pathophysiological changes (assimilation and nutrient utilization disorders, excretion disorders, changes in glucose metabolism, anorexia of aging).

Selected (psychiatric) geriatric syndromes related to nutritional disorders (cognitive deficit and dementia, memory and behavior disorders, delirium, depressive syndrome and maladaptation).Thermoregulation, water and mineral disorders (thermal overload and temperature damage syndrome).

Geriatric frailty and sarcopenia.

Diagnosis of geriatric frailty / sarcopenia and application methods of measuring body composition.

Nutritional assessment and diagnosis of malnutrition with application of GLIM criteria in clinical practice with focusing on physical and anthropometric assessment.

Swallowing disorders in older age (presbyphagia, presbydysphagia, dysphagia).

Calculation of the nutritional requirements in a geriatric patient and assessing the adequacy of nutritional interventions over time (requirements in health and illness, changes in energy requirements with age, geriatric patient in intensive care, long-term nutritional care plan).

Preventive nutrition in geriariatry and gerontology (theory of aging and the influence of individual food components on life expectancy, general principles of maintaining optimal nutrition in older age).

Artificial nutrition in geriatrics (modular dietetics, PND, EV - NGS and PEG, PEJ; PV).

Ethical aspects of nutritional care in older age and their limitations, palliative and terminal nutritional care.