In long-term care settings, the dining experience can play a powerful role in supporting cognitive health and quality of life for older adults. This article explores how dietitians can design mealtime environments that promote autonomy, social connection, and sensory engagement to help residents eat well and maintain cognitive vitality.
Healthy Aging
With the growing food as medicine movement, it’s important for dietitians to know the limits of nutrition and lifestyle interventions so they can support their patients and clients who may be dealing with bone loss or at risk for it.
Food plays an essential role in long term care (LTC) settings. Dining services teams do more than provide three meals a day. The menus they create, the way they present food, and their collaboration with other team members all influence how older adults feel about the place they call home.
Hospital food and nutrition services (FNS) teams are expected to meet high expectations as benchmarked on patient satisfaction surveys.
The idea of healthy aging goes beyond individual biometrics and expands into global impact as the number of older adults grows.
As with many ideas in the field of nutrition, the concept of antioxidants is often oversimplified by popular media in ways that run the risk of leaving out important details.
In 1961, researchers Leonard Hayflick, PhD, and Paul Moorhead, PhD, observed that human cells could only divide a limited number of times before they became unable to continue to do so.
This continuing education course reviews the leading health concerns of older adults and their dietary needs, macronutrient and fluid recommendations, and plant-based and other diet solutions.
Use it or lose it” is a common expression when it comes to aging—especially with regard to muscle mass. As…
Loss of appetite is common among adults of advanced age. But dietitians have options to boost nutritional intake while helping families understand that sometimes focusing on comfort rather than nourishment is best for patients during the dying process.