Hosted by Older People and Food Services Specialist Groups
The BDA Food Services Specialist Group and BDA Older People Specialist Group are proud to have worked with the National Association of Care Catering to develop the first menu planning and food service guidelines for care homes for older adults, to support care homes to provide high quality food and drink services for residents in their care.
The guidelines provide information and tools that care home managers, nursing staff, carers and chefs can use to understand how to ensure that menus meet residents’ nutritional needs, together with guidance about how food service delivery can both enhance mealtime experience for residents and support them to meet their nutritional needs.
The Care Home Digest launch and study day will:
- Focus on the use of food and enhancing the skills and knowledge of caterers to meet residents nutritional needs
- Demonstrate how care homes can review their services to understand what they are already doing well and where improvements can be considered and made
- Showcase care home catering teams where food-based, nutrient dense nutritional support is already being successfully implemented
- Provide practical examples of incorporating nutrient density into modified texture meals and snacks
Speakers
Introducing the Care Home Digest
Helen and Alison will introduce the Care Home Digest Guidelines and outline the background to their development
- Helen Ream, Working Group Chair, Healthcare and Food Service Dietitian at Compass Group UK & Ireland and Vice-Chair of the BDA Food Services Specialist Group
Helen Ream has been a Dietitian for 30 years, working in the NHS for over 20 years and with Compass Group UK & Ireland since 2015. Whilst working for Compass she has worked closely with care home and hospital teams to support and enhance the nutritional care provided through food services. Helen is also Vice Chair of the Food Services Specialist Group (FSSG) and has had the privilege of Chairing the working group who have developed the Care Home Digest guidelines.
- Alison Smith, Working Group Vice Chair, Prescribing Support Consultant Dietitian, NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board and Committee member of BDA Older People Specialist Group and BDA Optimising Nutrition Prescribing Specialist Group
Alison has been qualified for more than 25 years, and since 2013 has worked as a Prescribing Support Dietitian. This role focusses on appropriate prescribing of nutrition products, with a particular remit for prevention, identification and appropriate treatment of malnutrition using a food-based approach. Alison is a judge for the National Association for the National Association of Care Catering and Care Chef of the year awards and is also chair of both the Department of Health and Social Care Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances (ACBS) and the PrescQIPP Nutrition Virtual Professional Group. Alison’s professional interests include malnutrition, hydration, nutrition screening, care homes, frailty, sarcopenia, dysphagia, dementia, pressure injury and end of life.
A nutrient dense approach – why it’s important and how to implement it
- John Huggett, Group Hotel Services Manager and Sam Heal, Head Chef at Porthaven Care Homes Group
Chapter 1: Nutrition and hydration needs, screening for malnutrition and care planning
- Lisa Comber, Care Home Lead Dietitian, Care Home Inreach Team, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Sophie Murray, Governance and Regulation Manager, Harbour Healthcare and South East Deputy Chair for National Association for Care Catering (NACC)
Chapter 2: Delivering a positive mealtime experience to enable residents to eat and drink well
- Allan Brazier, National Treasurer, NACC
Chapter 3: Menu planning and design
- Elizabeth Armstrong, Registered Dietitian, Northern Ireland
- Monica Compton, Dietetic Prescribing Advisor, Northamptonshire Healthcare (NHfT)
Chapter 4: Special Diets - Vittoria Romano
- Vittoria Romano, Specialist Dietitian and Appropriate Prescribing Lead, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Chair of the BDA Older People Specialist Group
Cost
- Older People Specialist Group Members £55
- Food Services Specialist Group Members £55
- BDA Members £75 - Register before 17 May for £55
- NACC Members £75 - Register before 17 May for £55
- Non members £100
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