More practitioners are incorporating malnutrition diagnosis criteria into treatment of all patients. This diagnosis can be challenging outside of the hospital setting and when the signs and symptoms of malnutrition interplay with other patient factors including age and inflammation status.

This webinar will seek to review some of those nuanced situations by having experts in the field describe their recommendations for approaching malnutrition diagnostic challenges.

Learning Objectives

Discuss malnutrition diagnosis in long-term care settings.
Describe challenges in malnutrition diagnosis for older adults, including age-related changes in muscle mass.
Identify the challenges of diagnosing malnutrition in patients with both acute and chronic illnesses.

Topics and Faculty
Malnutrition Diagnosis in the Long-Term Care Setting
Mary Litchford, PhD, RDN, President, CASE Software & Books, Greensboro, NC

Challenges in Malnutrition Diagnosis for Older Adults
John Batsis, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Challenges in Patients with Acute and Chronic Illnesses
Gordon Jensen, MD, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Research Emeritus; Professor of Medicine and Nutrition Emeritus; Larner College of Medicine University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Moderator
Michelle Brown, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC, Assistant Director of Clinical Nutrition, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL