Nutrition for the Elderly in Care

This is a 1-day participative course aimed at raising the awareness of staff to the nutritional requirements of the elderly in care.

Course Content:

• Basic principals of nutrition
• Applying the basic principals to real life
  • What does it mean on a plate?
  • Getting the right balance.
  • What is the right balance for the elderly.
• Potential problems to be encountered when feeding the elderly
  • Malnutrition - what causes it/looking at some potential causes.
  • Illness/disease, ill fitting teeth, constipation.
  • Time for participants to add their own comments.

• Medical conditions to consider and appropriate strategies for the elderly
  • Diabetes.
  • Under nutrition.
  • Overweight/obesity and associated medical/care problems.
  • Heart disease.
  • Bowel problems.
  • Osteoporosis (in outline).
• Specialist areas that staff should be aware of
  • Supplementary feeding.
  • Coeliac disease.
  • Tube (enteral) feediing.
  • Renal die