NUTRITION FOR WOMEN PART 3: MENOPAUSE AND BEYOND

Course overview

Health professionals need to understand and help their elder female clients modify diet, exercise and lifestyle activities to achieve and maintain independence and "successful aging." Chapters include: the aging process; death and disease patterns; biology of aging; physiology of menopause; genetics; heart disease; osteoporosis; osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis; Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, cognitive function, sarcopenia, cachexia and wasting, protein energy malnutrition, more.