4276.0 Nutrition and Aging

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session covers various topics about the relationship between nutrition and public health among the elderly population including nutrition and social eating habits, potential nutritional risk factors of vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementia, characteristics of older adults experiencing unaffordable housing costs and food insecurity, influences of physical activity and nutrition on cognitive profile, and influence of vegetarian vs. non-vegetarian diet on cognition, and predictors of nutritional status among the oldest-old in China.
Session Objectives: 1. Explain the relationship between social factors and nutrition in an aging population. 2. Identify the relationship between vascular dementia and nutritional risk factors based on current epidemiological research. 3. Design outreach protocols and health promotion programming to better address the needs of older adults who are at risk for poor nutrition due to unaffordable housing and food costs.
Moderator:
Jan Warren-Findlow, PhD

2:30pm
Nutrition and Social Eating Habits Among Seniors Living Independently
Mariah Stump, MA MPH, Carl Cappelleti, Lindsay Corse, Aaron Kinney, Suleiman Lapalme, Nolan Sandygren, Danielle Scribner, Molly Dugan, Jennifer Hunter, Margaret Holmes, Thomas V. Delaney, PhD, Patricia Berry, MPH and Jan K. Carney, MD MPH
     
2:45pm
Potential nutritional risk factors of vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementia: A review
Lisandra Perez, MD, MPH(c), Lauren Heim, MPH(c) and A. Dean Sherzai, MD, MAS
3:00pm
Characteristics of older adults experiencing unaffordable housing costs and food insecurity
Lisa Kleiner, JD, MSS, Lynne Kotranski, PhD and Francine Axler, MPH
     
3:15pm
Influences of physical activity and nutrition on cognitive profile of an aging cohort
Lisandra Perez, MD, MPH(c), Atif Adam and A. Dean Sherzai, MD, MAS
3:30pm
Influence of vegetarian vs. non-vegetarian diet on cognition using CVLT
Lisandra Perez, MD, MPH(c), Atif Adam and A. Dean Sherzai, MD, MAS
3:45pm
Predictors of nutritional status among the oldest-old in China
Luxi Ji, MPH candidate and Hongdao Meng, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health (newly approved name Aging & Public Health)
Endorsed by: Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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