Healthy Eating for Seniors: A Comprehensive Guide

Design nutritious, senior-friendly meals with practical tips on texture, nutrition, and the latest food trends for healthy ageing.

Duration

6 weeks

Weekly study

1 hour

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Support healthier, happier lives for older adults

By 2030, 1.4 billion people will be over the age of 60 (WHO), increasing the demand for specialised care for ageing populations.

As a caregiver, you have the power to transform the health and vitality of older adults through thoughtfully prepared meals and tailored nutrition plans.

Discover how you can tailor each for your patients and boost their quality of care on this online course from Taipei Medical University.

Over six immersive weeks, you’ll develop the expertise to address the unique nutritional needs of older adults and support them in ageing well with practical, evidence-based strategies.

Understand seniors’ health and nutritional needs

You’ll begin with an introduction to the key issues affecting elderly health, including geriatric syndromes, frailty, and common nutrient deficiencies.

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how ageing impacts dietary needs and how you can address these through proper nutrition and healthy eating habits.

Design meals to meet the unique nutritional needs of seniors

You’ll then explore how to design, produce, and select food that meets the health needs of seniors, utilising your understanding of medicine, nutrition, and food science.

You’ll master key concepts such as texture-modified food standards, essential for seniors with chewing or swallowing challenges. Additionally, you’ll explore food processing techniques that ensure each meal they receive is both nutritious and easy to digest.

After that, you’ll delve into food processing technologies and learn how they’re applied to geriatric food development.

With the experts at Taipei Medical University, you’ll explore international trends in geriatric food, focusing on markets in Japan, the U.S., and Taiwan.

  • Week 1

    Physiological and Nutritional Issues in Seniors

    • Physiological and Nutritional Issues in Seniors

      Look at the nutrient deficiencies and energy needs of the elderly from the perspective of geriatric syndrome and formulate healthy nutrition strategies.

  • Week 2

    Food Texture Classification

    • Food Texture Classification

      The chewing ability of the elderly is often not as good as that of the young. Food with soft texture can help the elderly eat better and absorb nutrients. This week’s course introduces the grading of food texture in detail.

  • Week 3

    Application of Food Processing Technologies

    • Application of Food Processing Technologies

      Elderly people often have nutritional needs. When softening food, they should consider how to preserve nutrients and adopt different processing methods for different ingredients.

  • Week 4

    Current Situation in the Geriatric Food Market

    • Current Situation in the Geriatric Food Market

      Through understanding of existing products, we help students who are interested in developing novel foods for the elderly to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of products for the target group.

  • Week 5

    Design of Geriatric Food

    • Design of Geriatric Food

      The design of meals for the elderly must take into account the physiological and nutritional status, psychological and socioeconomic conditions of the elderly.

  • Week 6

    Homemade Geriatric Food

    • Homemade Geriatric Food

      Introducing the key points of poetry for seniors, allowing you to prepare customized meals for your family at home.

    • Healthy food podcast and reality show

      The teacher's own family experience brings out the importance of food for the elderly, and by actually showing the portions of food, we can understand food for the elderly.

    • Assessment and course feedback

      The course will end here. If you want to earn a Certificate of Achievement on this course, please take the test for a quick review. You are welcome to leave any feedback and rethink how to bring it forward.

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