Wednesday 19th May 2021
Dietetics Digest
Sarcopenia, Malnutrition and Physical Activity feat. Stacy Jones RD (Episode 7)

Associate Professor; Curriculum Change Lead at Coventry University. Stacey has worked in academia for the past 6.5 years and, before that, working as a specialist community dietitian and a Public Health Specialist Dietitian. Stacey is undertaking a part-time PhD in the area of sarcopenia, looking at the role of the dietitian in preventing and managing sarcopenia in older adults. She has a passion for leading forward the profession of dietetics and evidence-based practice, striving for excellence in patient caretaking a holistic, patient-centred approach.

Stacey is a committee member of the BDA Older People Specialist Group and the EFAD Older Adults specialist network.

Resources Mentioned:

• Sarcopenia: revised European Consensus on definition and diagnosis
• PROT-AGE Group Recommendations
• Moving Medicine
• SARC-F tool
• GLIM Criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition
• Reflection on Expanding the Role of the Dietitian

Stacy Jones (Twitter)

• The enhanced role: should dietitians be prescribing exercise advice? A qualitative study.
• Nutritional interventions for preventing malnutrition in people with dementia. Nursing Older People

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