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Bridging the Gap: Identifying Sarcopenia and Malnutrition in the Older Adult: Part 2

Program Date: 20 November 2024

Publication Date: 06 August 2025

Continuing Education Credits: Nurse Contact 1.25 CE; Dietitian 1.25 CPEU

Course Description

In part two of this two-part series, Ainsley Malone, MS, RD, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN, will examine and apply current evidence-based tools for diagnosis of malnutrition, sarcopenia, and frailty in older adults; evaluate age-specific nutritional considerations for older adults experiencing malnutrition, sarcopenia, and/or frailty; and discuss how to include nutrition during transitions of care to promote better health outcomes and improve quality of life. This program was originally presented live in a 2024 webinar series.

Course Objectives
  • Examine and apply current evidence-based tools for the diagnosis of malnutrition, sarcopenia, and frailty in older adults. 
  • Evaluate age-specific nutritional considerations for older adults experiencing malnutrition, sarcopenia, and/or frailty. 
  • Discuss how to include nutrition during transitions of care to promote better health outcomes and improve quality of life.

Performance Indicators: 9.1.1, 9.1.5, 11.2.1

Activity Code: 189001

Course Instructor Bio(s)

Ainsley Malone, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN

Clinical Practice Specialist
American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
New Albany, OH, USA

Ms Malone serves as a Clinical Practice Specialist for the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) where she works to support clinical practice activities for the organization. She retired in 2023 from her 40-year career as a nutrition support dietitian within the Mt Carmel Health System in Columbus, where she assisted in the management of patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition. Ainsley is a global and national leader in malnutrition-related activities, having served as an author of the 2012 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/ASPEN Malnutrition Consensus Characteristics and the 2018 Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) consensus characteristics.  She is currently serving as Co-Lead of the GLIM Implementation and Dissemination working group. Over her longstanding career, Ainsley has served in many nutrition leadership capacities, including President of ASPEN 2013-14 and on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, where she currently serves as Speaker of the House of Delegates.

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Category
CE CPEU Older Adult Disease State

Abbott Nutrition’s Provider Statement for Nursing CEs:

Abbott Nutrition Health Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider #CEP 11213.

Abbott Nutrition’s Statement for Dietitian CPEUs:

This educational activity has been prior-approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR credentialed practitioners will receive the specified continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material.