Aged Care Services

Our Aged Care nutrition services include:

Individual resident consultations

• resident nutritional status screening and assessments
• • aims to identify residents who are at risk or, or are, under-/mal-nourished or who have an eating problem or require mealtime assistance
  • allows for monitoring of changes to nutritional status

• resident consultancy services
• • assessment of the individual nutritional requirements of residents
  • individualised dietary recommendations for a range of nutrition-related problems
  • nutrition care plans implemented in consultation with resident, family and staff (including for tube feeding)
  • dietary transfer details can be provided to the hospital Dietitian if the resident requires hospitalisation
  • individual resident consultations are available as:
  • • on-site consultations (local facilities)
    • off-site consultations conducted using a combination of phone, fax, email (Australia-wide)

 Aged Care Facility Consultancy Services

• menu reviews
• • reviews the adequacy of the written menu
  • aims to demonstrate that residents have the opportunity to consume the minimum amounts of food required for adequate nourishment and hydration
  • assists with preparation for accreditation
  • regular assessment allows for review of effectiveness of quality improvement strategies

• staff nutrition education and training
• • general nutrition principles for caring for aged care residents - eating for good health in later life
  • special diets eg. diabetes and the glycaemic index - how strict does the diabetic diet need to be?
  • prevention and management of malnutrition - ageing does not have to mean 'fading away'
  • managing overweight - what to do for the resident who is at the other end of the spectrum
  • fibre, fluid and constipation - are prunes for breakfast enough?
  • nutrition and wounds - beyond great dressings: healing wounds from the inside out
  • other topics upon request

• input into nutrition policy development
• • contributing to the development and review of nutrition-related policies and procedures to both assist with the accreditation process by ensuring that nutrition-related quality improvement is carried out and to provide nutrition-related advice to multidisciplinary teams (eg. diet therapy advice to wound care or continence committees, advice on drug-nutrient interactions for medication review teams)

• other services available upon request

Please contact us for further information or a quote for our aged care services.