Sarcopenia: Challenges & Strategies for Prevention & Management

Event date: 6/9/2022

Join us for a 1-h educational webinar with Hope Barkoukis, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND discussing the challenges and strategies for prevention and management of sarcopenia, including a brief discussion of the increasing recognition of issues related to sarcopenic obesity in elderly patients and residents.

Webinar Objectives:

• Gain an understanding of the evolving definitions of sarcopenia, including the very recent definition of sarcopenic obesity issued by ESPEN
• Identify challenges related to prevention and management of sarcopenia, including sarcopenic obesity
• Characterize the essential nutritional and non-nutritional components of ‘state of the art’ interventions for the management of sarcopenia