Keep your staff up to date: Inservice education sessions for rest home and residential care can be arranged.
The sessions can be one hour to hour and half long depending on your needs.
The following topics may be appropriate:
1. Developing menus for resthomes and residential care institutions.
2. Texture Modified Guidelines: How to adopt your institutions diet to meet the needs of those that may need a soft diet, minced diet or pureed or dysphagia diet.
3. Diabetes
4. Providing the Right Foods for the Elderly in Your Care
5. Addressing Malnutrition
6. The role of Dietary Supplements
7. Nutrition and Wound Healing
8. Delivering Food through Nasogastric Feeding
9. Nutrition screening and monitoring for the elderly
