Where are we today? IOM report in 2000 highlighted nutrition - - PDF document

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August 23, 2012

Gordon L. Jensen, MD, PhD Professor and Head of Department of Nutritional Sciences Pennsylvania State University

Nutrition and Healthy Aging in the Community

Workshop, October 5-6, 2011 Food and Nutrition Board Institute of Medicine Please see Workshop Summary for list of participants and sponsors

Where are we today?

• IOM report in 2000 highlighted nutrition

priorities for enhanced coverage for Medicare beneficiaries and coordination

• f nutrition services in the community

setting.

• Little progress has been made in meeting

identified priorities over past decade.

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Nutrition and Healthy Aging in the Community Workshop

• Therefore IOM convened a new public

workshop to illuminate concerns related to community-based delivery of nutrition services and to identify nutrition interventions and model programs that promote:

– Successful transitions to home from acute, sub- acute, and chronic care. – Health and independent living in the community.

Workshop Highlights

• Priorities

– Interventions - educate RD’s, multidisciplinary collaboration, integrate nutrition with other services along the care continuum to encompass key transitions – Research – screening and assessment methods, refine

• utcome measures, better understand nutrient

requirements, use of fortified foods and supplements, interplay of nutrition and cognition, improved communication and education techniques for older persons and caregivers, growing impact of obesity and associated disorders, and role of food insecurity

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How do we move forward?

• Resources likely to be limited
• Broad stakeholder participation needed
• Look for innovative efficiencies and biggest “bang for

the buck”

• Who is at risk for adverse outcomes?
• More importantly, who can we help?
• How do we keep older persons healthy and living

independently in the community setting?