Nutrition for the Elderly Course
This course equips healthcare professionals with practical skills to optimize nutrition for elderly patients, focusing on assessment, meal planning, micronutrient correction, hydration, and effective counseling in clinical and community environments.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This concise, practice-focused course helps you confidently support older adults with clear assessment tools, targeted energy and protein planning, and safe texture modifications. Learn to address vitamin D, B12, and common deficiencies, manage bowel health, hydration, and activity, and apply realistic, low-cost meal strategies, counselling techniques, and follow-up plans that fit real-world clinical and community settings.
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Develop skills
- Geriatric nutrition assessment: quickly spot malnutrition, frailty and key risks.
- Elderly meal planning: design soft, low-cost, protein-rich menus that patients enjoy.
- Micronutrient management: correct vitamin D and B12 deficits with safe protocols.
- Bowel and hydration care: relieve constipation and dehydration with diet strategies.
- Counselling older adults: use motivational interviewing and caregiver-focused guidance.
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