Promote nutrition and hydration in adult care settings
In this tutorial you will learn:
- About the components of a balanced diet
- About current national and organisational requirements for meeting nutritional and hydration needs in adult care settings
- About malnutrition in adult care settings
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Eat well' on the NHS Choices website
- ‘Nutritional guidelines and menu checklist for residential and nursing homes’ from Northern Ireland’s Public Health Agency
- Laser reading text: ‘Staying hydrated’
- ‘Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 14’ from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
- ‘Guidance for Regulation 14: Meeting nutritional and hydration needs’ from the CQC
- ‘Malnutrition and dehydration’ from the British Nutrition Foundation
- ‘Introduction to Malnutrition’ from the BAPEN website
- ‘Screening & 'MUST'' on the BAPEN website
- ‘Religion and dietary choices’ from the Independent Nurse website
- Presentation
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on ‘Understanding nutrition and hydration'.
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on ‘Dietary requirements'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Evidence Opportunities
- This statement from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition is on ‘Nutrition and older adults living in the community’. Read from page 15 ‘Nutrition, health and changes with ageing’.
- ‘Nutrition and hydration: Professional Resources’ from the Royal College of Nursing. You can use this page to familiarise yourself with nutrition and hydration strategies, standards and policies for each of the UK countries and the rest of Europe.
- This section of the Social Care Institute for Excellence covers ‘Eating with dementia’.
- Click to read ‘Best practice guidance: Food and nutrition in Care Homes for older people' by the Welsh Government.
- The Malnutrition Pathway website contains a number of resources for ‘Managing adult nutrition’ including these which are aimed at those working in care and residential homes.
- This article from Quality Compliance Systems examines ‘Can care homes overcome barriers to implementing nutrition guidelines?’
- Think And Challenge
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