UO Nutrition and Food for Healthy Ageing

Course aim

To provide an overview of the role of food, nutrition and lifestyle for good health and to reduce the risk of age-related chronic disease and improve the quality of life in ageing Australians.

Course content

Nutritional guidelines: qualitative and quantitative; macro and micronutrients; changes in nutritional requirements with ageing; lifestyle and dietary patterns associated with disease during ageing; physiological, socioeconomic, and cultural changes to food, nutrition and eating with ageing; malnutrition; drug-nutrient interactions; food provision and services across the continuum of aged care.

Textbooks

Nil

Prerequisites

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
BIOL 1052	UO Foundations of Human Biology 1
BIOL 1053	UO Foundations of Human Biology 2

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching Method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY
Online (UniSA Online)	10 weeks x n/a

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Case study, Report

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation