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Nutritional care of older people

Nutritional care of older people
Nutritional care of older people
Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that affect a large number of cancer patients and cancer survivors. Aspects such as symptom management, behavioural modification, exercise and medication are all important aspects of cancer care, but nutritional issues at the end of life can be accompanied by contentious ethical factors as well as religious and cultural influences that need to be addressed by health professionals. This book enables physicians, nurses and also dieticians to better discuss these complex issues with patients and their families.

This comprehensive reference book provides both background information and practical, clinical advice for managing the cancer patient at all stages of their disease trajectory. It includes information that relates to patients who are continuing to receive disease-specific therapy, the cancer survivor, as well as patients with advanced or recurrent cancer receiving palliative care.

Basic principles such as epidemiology and physiology set the scene, leading into the cachexia/anorexia syndrome, treatment options, nutritional counselling, enteral and parenteral nutrition, complementary/alternative therapies, exercise, clinical outcomes measures in each of the clinical groups, and focus on special populations and their specific needs. Multidimensional, interdisciplinary clinical evaluation and treatment is emphasised, and ethical, religious, and cultural factors are also addressed.

Multidisciplinary in nature, this book draws on the experience of the editors' work across the fields of oncology, palliative care, surgery, primary care, nursing, dietetics and nutritional science. It will prove invaluable to all general practitioners, internists, medical oncologists and surgeons, nurses, palliative care specialists and related professionals involved in the care of the cancer patient
9780199550197
Oxford University Press
Hopkinson, Jane
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Bailey, Christopher
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Del Fabbro, Egidio
Bruera, Eduardo
Denmark-Wahn, Wendy
Bowling, Tim
Hopkinson, Jane B.
Baracos, Vickie E.
Hopkinson, Jane
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Bailey, Christopher
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Del Fabbro, Egidio
Bruera, Eduardo
Denmark-Wahn, Wendy
Bowling, Tim
Hopkinson, Jane B.
Baracos, Vickie E.

Hopkinson, Jane and Bailey, Christopher (2010) Nutritional care of older people. In, Del Fabbro, Egidio, Bruera, Eduardo, Denmark-Wahn, Wendy, Bowling, Tim, Hopkinson, Jane B. and Baracos, Vickie E. (eds.) Nutrition and the Cancer Patient. Oxford University Press.

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Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that affect a large number of cancer patients and cancer survivors. Aspects such as symptom management, behavioural modification, exercise and medication are all important aspects of cancer care, but nutritional issues at the end of life can be accompanied by contentious ethical factors as well as religious and cultural influences that need to be addressed by health professionals. This book enables physicians, nurses and also dieticians to better discuss these complex issues with patients and their families.

This comprehensive reference book provides both background information and practical, clinical advice for managing the cancer patient at all stages of their disease trajectory. It includes information that relates to patients who are continuing to receive disease-specific therapy, the cancer survivor, as well as patients with advanced or recurrent cancer receiving palliative care.

Basic principles such as epidemiology and physiology set the scene, leading into the cachexia/anorexia syndrome, treatment options, nutritional counselling, enteral and parenteral nutrition, complementary/alternative therapies, exercise, clinical outcomes measures in each of the clinical groups, and focus on special populations and their specific needs. Multidimensional, interdisciplinary clinical evaluation and treatment is emphasised, and ethical, religious, and cultural factors are also addressed.

Multidisciplinary in nature, this book draws on the experience of the editors' work across the fields of oncology, palliative care, surgery, primary care, nursing, dietetics and nutritional science. It will prove invaluable to all general practitioners, internists, medical oncologists and surgeons, nurses, palliative care specialists and related professionals involved in the care of the cancer patient

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Published date: July 2010

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Local EPrints ID: 164089
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/164089
ISBN: 9780199550197
PURE UUID: d28bbfc6-fb9d-4e70-bbf9-ba6b09371d47
ORCID for Christopher Bailey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7528-6264

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Date deposited: 20 Sep 2010 08:32
Last modified: 22 Jul 2022 17:30

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Author: Jane Hopkinson
Author: Christopher Bailey ORCID iD
Editor: Egidio Del Fabbro
Editor: Eduardo Bruera
Editor: Wendy Denmark-Wahn
Editor: Tim Bowling
Editor: Jane B. Hopkinson
Editor: Vickie E. Baracos

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