- Docente: Giampaolo Bianchi
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
Improving students knowledge and competencies about nutritional
aspects in different life periods (differences due to the
physiological changing of needs during growth and
senescence).
Reflcting about the constant interconnection between nutrition and
health status.
Developing abilities in practical application of theese knowledges.
Course contents
Nutritional aspects in different kind of geriatric patients
(autonomous/dependent in activity of daily living, with or without
motricity impairment). Physiological changing of body composition
during senescence will be especially stressed.
We are then going to focus on nutritional evaluation and
nutritional needs during typical geriatric illnesses and syndrome,
with particular attention to those condition which can seriously
modify nutritional hanits in terms of quantity and quality.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
In one single section with the others collegues involved in the
Elective.
Teaching tools
Slides and additional tools
Office hours
See the website of Giampaolo Bianchi