To support older adults in meeting their nutritional needs, empowering them to eat and drink for health, and helping to maximize their quality of life.

The target group will know:

• The importance of eating, drinking and moving to improve health and enhance quality of life.
• How to have a nutrient rich diet (including how to increase the nutritional content of meals and snacks).
• The importance of health and wellbeing, and ways to reduce social isolation.
• Who to contact for further support.

• ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical nutrition and hydration in geriatrics. Clinical Nutrition (2022).  
• BDA Older People Specialist Group Guiding Food Principles (2018).
• NICE Clinical Guideline (CG32) Nutrition support for adults: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition (2006).
• NICE Quality Standard (QS24) Nutrition support in adults (2012).  
• Baldwin C, Weekes CE. Cochrane Review (2011). Dietary Advice with or without oral nutrition supplements for disease-related malnutrition in adults.  
• Poscia A et al (2018) Effectiveness of nutritional interventions addressed to elderly persons: umbrella systematic review with meta-analysis. European Journal of Public Health. 28(2):275-283.  
• Trabal J & Farran-Codina A (2015) Effects of dietary enrichment with conventional foods on energy and protein intake in older adults: a systematic review. Nutrition Reviews. 73(9):624- 633.  
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• Managing Malnutrition in the Community. Malnutrition Pathway. 2nd Edition 2017. 
• SACN Vitamin D & Health Report 2015.  
• The Nutrition and Hydration Digest (2019).
• BDA Losing weight in older age is not a normal part of ageing (2017).
• Cruz-Jentoft A et al (2018). Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis. Report of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People. Age Ageing. 2019 Jan 1;48(1):16-31.  
• Artaza-Artabe I et al. (2016) The relationship between nutrition and frailty: Effects of protein intake, nutritional supplementation, vitamin D and exercise on muscle metabolism in the elderly. A systematic review. Maturitas. 93:89-99.  
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• Eglseer D, Eminovic S & Lohrmann C (2016). Association Between Sarcopenia and Nutritional Status in Older Adults: A Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 42(7):33-41.  
• C. H. Murphy, H. M. Roche (2018). Nutrition and physical activity countermeasures for sarcopenia British Nutrition Foundation Nutrition Bulletin, 43, 374–387  
• Laur et al (2017). Malnutrition or frailty? Overlap and evidence gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of frailty and malnutrition. Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab. 42: 449–458.  
• Favaro-Moreira NC et al (2016). Risk Factors for Malnutrition in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature Based on Longitudinal Data. Advances in Nutrition. 7(3):507-522.  
• Feng Z et al (2017). Risk factors and protective factors associated with incident or increase of frailty among community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review of longitudinal studies. PLoS ONE.  
• Tieland M et al (2017). The Impact of Dietary Protein or Amino Acid Supplementation on Muscle Mass and Strength in Elderly People: Individual Participant Data and Meta-Analysis of RCT's. Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 21(9):994-1001.