Target groups: All care staff involved in the diet planning of service users.

Length of course: Half day

Course outline:

This course is aimed at all care staff involved in the dietary requirements of the service users and will cover:

• what is nutrition?
• what is diet?
• what is healthy eating?
  • requirements for elderly persons
• the elderly population and their dietary requirements
• effects of residential care
• factors affecting nutrition of the elderly
• socio-economic factors in diets
• physical affects of diets
• psychological affects of diets
• nutrition in the elderly
• assessment of needs/care standards/MUST
• obesity/BMI
• culture, religion and fasting
• relationship between nutrition and health
• special dietary needs – vegetarianism, weight management (reduction/increase), high fibre, diabetic, low fat etc
• overcoming nutritional difficulties
• case studies
• challenge of meeting nutritional requirements
• ways to improve performance.

Method of assessment/evaluation

• Questionnaires

You can book the course by completing the booking form and returning it to the address on the form.