3303.1 Nutrition and Aging

Monday, October 29, 2012: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session is focused on the nutrition and healthy eating aspect of aging. The presentations will cover the practical population-based solutions to improving vitamin D status, specifically in rural and American Indian (AI) populations, the nutrition education and access to healthy food for low-income aging adults in the State of California, a study to exam the association between an indicator of social support, eating alone, and all-cause mortality and metabolism-related mortality over an 8-year period from a longitudinal survey of health status among elderly in Taiwan, the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables among older adults in New Orleans, as well as a baseline data analyses from InCHIANTI on the relation of iron status to cognition.
Session Objectives: 1. Evaluate safety and effectiveness of improving vitamin D status by vitamin D fortified food. 2. Define food insecurity as it applies to the aging population. 3. Describe the impacts of eating alone and nutrition intakes on older people’s health and well-being. 4. Identify factors related to reduced produce consumption in adults over 65 years of age. 5. Assess the relation between continuous biochemical iron measures and cognitive performance in the elderly.
Moderator:
Janet Frank, DrPH

2:30pm
Response to vitamin D fortified food in rural white and American Indian women
Irina V. Haller, PhD, MS, Diane Krueger, BS and Neil Binkley, MD
3:06pm
Consumption of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Among Older Adults in New Orleans
Andrea Jones, BA, Janet Rice, PhD, Keelia O'Malley, MPH and Jeanette Gustat, PhD
3:18pm
Iron status is related to cognitive performance in the elderly InCHIANTI population
Lenis Chen, EdM, Kushang Patel, PhD and Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD

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Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: Food and Nutrition, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus

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