Ageing Well: Nutrition for Older Adults living in the community (0.5 CME Point)
How do nutrition needs change with age? How do older adults diets compare to recommendations? What can we do to change this and what is the best to approach this?
Speakers
Dr Miriam Clegg
Dr Miriam Clegg has a BSc in Sports and Exercise Sciences, PhD in Nutrition and is a Registered Nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition. Miriam’s current research is funded by grants obtained from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC), and the Joint Programming Initiative “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life”. As Principal Investigator for the BBSRC funded Food4Years Ageing Network, she built a community of over 200 individuals from diverse backgrounds committed to the development, integration and communication of healthy, affordable foods and specific diets for all older adults across our food landscape. Dissemination work in this space has included speaking at the UK All-Party Parliamentary Food and Health Forum at Westminster and the development of a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) targeted at carers of older people focused on increasing protein and energy in the diet and improving physical activity. She currently Chairs the Nutrition Society Special Interest Group in Healthy Ageing. Miriam feels strongly about the development of diets that are both healthy and sustainable. As such, she is a Co-Investigator in the UKRI funded “Raising the Pulse” project, a systems analysis of the environmental, nutritional and health benefits of pulse-enhanced foods and has researched the implications of plant-based dairy alternative consumption on dietary intake across the lifespan. Miriam became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2020 and recently as a member of the UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Advisory group has developed the Higher Education, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Food, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences Subject Benchmark Statement. She is a member of the Association for Nutrition Accreditation Committee and is External Examiner for the BSc Nutrition at St Mary’s University and MSc Sports and Exercise Nutrition at Hong Kong University Space. Miriam is Assistant Editor for the British Journal of Nutrition, Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics and Journal of Nutritional Science.
Appreciate the importance of diet in healthy ageing Understand the nutritional requirements of older adults Describe the limitations in the current diets of older adults Design nutrient dense foods, meals and diets for older adults Develop strategies to encourage change in eating behaviours of older adults