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April 1, 2025 - "In Sickness and in Health: The Power of Nutrition for Older Adults"

What we eat has a big impact on our health as we age. Nutrition plays a key role in maintaining good physical and mental health, managing chronic disease, and in helping us heal from illness and injury. Physical changes that occur in our older years can deeply impact our body's nutritional needs and things that worked well when an individual was younger often no longer support health as effectively as we age.

While any nutrition plan works best when individualized, there is extensive research supporting general recommendations for what to eat for brain health, bone health, heart health and overall wellbeing for older individuals. Strong evidence also supports aggressive nutrition intervention for older individuals experiencing illness or needing to heal from an injury, including joint replacement or recovering after a fall.

What foods are best? Do vitamins and supplements help? We will explore those questions and more during this presentation.

Lisa Brown PhD, RD, LDN is a professor of nutrition, co-chair of the Nutrition Department, and the dietetic internship director at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Brown earned her master’s degree in Nutrition and Health Promotion from Simmons College and her doctorate in Medical Nutrition Sciences from Boston University School of Medicine.

Lisa has authored several book chapters including textbook chapters on geriatric nutrition and on nutrition during pregnancy.

In addition to teaching, she provides dietitian vacation coverage in several long-term care facilities in the Boston area. Dr. Brown served on the licensure board for Nutritionists and Dietetics in Massachusetts, including several years as the Chair of the Board.

Dr. Brown grew up in Wayland and lived there for the first three decades of her life. Her parents still live in the house she grew up in near Wayland High School.