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Importance of Clinical Nutrition in Therapy to Older Adults

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This book chapter approaches the importance of clinical nutrition of older adults in therapy. The field of geriatric nutrition is expanding and it is not possible to give a full review of the whole scientific scope due to its extraordinary width. Restricted to the year 2015 there were 16201 papers listed in the PUBMED (PubMed Health. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); access 14.07.2015) database concerning “Nutrition” as a subject heading and 1241 systematic reviews. This chapter will NOT give an overview of nutrition “as a therapy”. This is covered elsewhere in this book and in external sources [1–5] same with the “Nutrition”—aspect of elderly people living in the community [6,7]. Instead, the chapter focuses on the role of the nutrition process as a part of procedures connected with the framework of “developing drugs for the older patient”. This discussion is composed from two different perspectives: a hospital geriatrician and a social gerontologist. The key question for this chapter is: “What details of nutrition have to be considered on the way to developing drugs for elder patients?”

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    The German 1st edition.

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    http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=hlth_ehis_de2&lang=de; Abruf am 04.08.2015.

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    “Life-energy”.

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    Data access viahttp://www.centerwatch.com/drug-information/fda-approved-drugs/oncology: 31.08.2015 13:41–14:00.

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Thiesemann, R. (2016). Importance of Clinical Nutrition in Therapy to Older Adults. In: Stegemann, S. (eds) Developing Drug Products in an Aging Society. AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43099-7_29

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