Disability and Residential Care Services

Our disability and residential 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)
  • information on drug-nutrient interactions can be provided
  • dietary transfer details can be provided to the hospital Dietitian if the resident requires hospitalisation
  • individual resident consultations are available as:
  • • on-site consultations (group home residents)
    • rooms-based or home visit consultations (clients not in residential care) 

• Disability Group Home and Residential Care 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
    • regular assessment allows for review of effectiveness of quality improvement strategies 

• staff nutrition education and training
• • general nutrition principles for caring for disability / residential care clients - healthy eating for people with a disability
  • special diets eg. diabetes and the glycaemic index - how strict does the diabetic diet need to be?
  • prevention and management of malnutrition - swallowing problems does not have to mean 'skinny'
  • 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?
  • menu planning - how to put together a healthy menu that will go down well
  • other topics upon request 

• other services available upon request 

Please contact us for further information or a quote for our disability and residential care services.