This continuing education course examines the risk factors for and health effects of food insecurity in older adults, highlights available food assistance programs and their impact, and provides nutrition professionals with strategies to improve older adults’ food security.
The metabolic alterations resulting from trauma and other severe injuries are well recognized. This response is characterized by an increase in protein catabolism which outstrips the concomitant increase in synthesis. The result is net overall catabolism with degradation of muscle and fat mass.
This continuing education activity, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives, consists of a book of the same title by Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and this study guide.