Title - Syracuse University Library

Nutrition and Gerontology
Search Strategies and Resources

Please also see Janet Pease's Nutrition Subject Guide

For assistance with research, please contact:

Adina Mulliken, Librarian for Gerontology
Janet Pease, Librarian for Nutrition

Suggestions for using Summit Catalog
To find records for nutrition and gerontology materials in Summit Catalog, you may use Advanced Search and choose Subject (keyword) from the pulldown menu. When you search by Subject, the records you retrieve will have been classified under the Subject you searched for. A Subject search is more focused than a Keyword search. A keyword search will find records that have the words you search for anywhere in the record. Some Subjects you may want to search with include:

Drug
Alcohol
Diet
Food
Malnutrition
Older people
Longevity
Aging
Aged
Nutritional
Nutrition

Two titles of interest
Handbook of clinical nutrition and aging / edited by Connie W. Bales and Christine Seel Ritchie ; foreword by Robert M. Russell.
Sci/Tech Library Call Number: RC952.5 .H344 2004

Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly
Sci/Tech Lib Call Number: TX361.A3 J68 Current issues in Sci/Tech Lib-Room 103
Also available online via Ejournals

Suggestions for using databases
To access a database, you can go to the Database main menu and enter a database title in the search box on the left side of the page.

AgeLine-Silverplatter
Since the focus of AgeLine is aging, you will not need to include aging as a search term. However, you may limit to a specific age group. To find records for nutrition and gerontology materials in Ageline, you may choose Subject above the search box. To use more than one Subject, use AND (such as 85+ AND meals). Some Subjects you may want to search with include:

55+
60+
Under 65
65+
70+
75+
80+
85+

Costs
Diet
Dietary
Eating
Food
Foods
Meals
Menu planning
Nutrition
Nutritional

Agricola
To find records for nutrition and gerontology materials in Agricola, you may use Advanced Search and choose Descriptor from the pulldown menu. Some Descriptors you may want to search with include:
Aged
Aging
Diet
Eating habits
Food
Human
Longevity
Nutrition
Nutritionists
Nutritional
Nutritive
Older people
Old age

CABDirect
In CABDirect you may search by subsets of Human Science such as Public Health and Human Nutrition. To find records for nutrition and gerontology materials in CABDirect, you may use Advanced Search and choose Descriptor from the pulldown menu. Some Descriptors you may want to search with include:
Aged
Aging
Longevity
Old age