Watch Party – Nutrition Risk in Older Adults: Taking the Focus Away from Weight
Watch Parties are a dedicated time where we can gather and watch one of the recordings from a past webinar together. WIDIC members will have the opportunity to vote on what to watch every month! There will be additional time at the end blocked off for discussion and peer support.
Access to Watch Parties is available to all WIDIC members and anyone who has previously registered for the webinar, or purchased the recording. Watch Parties are not recorded.
For our February Watch Party, we are watching Nutrition Risk in Older Adults: Taking the Focus Away from Weight, originally presented by Christine Mills, PhD, MPH, RD in April 2022.
In Canada, one-third of adults aged 65 and older are at nutrition risk, the risk of poor dietary intake and nutritional status. Nutrition risk is associated with increased risk of frailty, hospitalization, and death, and with lower quality of life. Currently there are many tools available to screen individuals for nutrition risk, however most of these have a focus on weight or BMI. In this webinar we will discuss alternative approaches for determining which older adults are at risk for poor nutrition.
At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
- Identify common nutrition risk screening tools
- Describe ways to screen for nutrition risk that don’t involve weight
- Understand why nutrition risk occurs
- Why it is important to identify individuals at nutrition risk
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