NTDT350 Study Guide - Final Guide: Polypharmacy, Pharmacodynamics, Dementia

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Nutrition and Dietetics
• Course: NTDT350
• Professor: Sandra Baker

Document Summary

Ntdt 305: nutrition and the older adult: fast facts: medication used among older adults. Polypharmacy: older adults consume 30% of prescription medications in the united. States (older adults only make up 13% of the population: 90% of older adults take one prescription medication per day, 40% take 5 or more medications per day (not counting over the counter medications) If an appropriate medication and adverse medication side effects were ranked as a disease, the events would qualify as the 4th and. Ntdt 305: nutrition and the older adult: awareness of impact of medication-nutrient interaction important, clear communication among patient and all caregivers important, what percentage of the elderly experience some type of cognitive health. Alzheimer"s disease accounts for 60 80% of dementia cases: problems affecting food intake dementia, aphasia: inability to produce and/or comprehend language, apraxia: loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements. These connections, or synapse, transmit information from cell to cell.