Food is Medicine Series – Nutrition in Palliative Care
Overview
What You'll Learn
- Define a palliative care approach to supportive nutrition
- Understand the link between nutrition and mental health
- Use the Food Story tool to get a holistic understanding of nourishment
- Recognize the role of cultural and spiritual traditions in nutrition
- Use evidence-based principles to promote optimal nutrition
- Apply a whole-person model of care using principles of integrative medicine
- Differentiate nutritional screening from nutritional assessment
- Identify the underlying dynamics of food-drug interactions
- Understand how nutrition affects common symptoms of serious illness