STarts 4th June 2018

Day 1: Recovery and Mental Health (1)

My tips: Highlighting 3 supporting nutrition and dementia resources for carers.

The DMAT helps you identify, find solutions and create a care plan to enhance mealtime eating abilities and improve the mealtime environment

‘Food and eating are an enjoyable and social part of our lives and mealtimes provide structure to our day…Many of our favourite experiences and memories involve preparing and sharing food with family and friends. This makes food, eating and mealtimes an important part of our everyday lives (4).’

References

1. British Dietetic Association (2018) Available from: www.bda.uk.com/improvinghealth/awareness_raising/dietitians_week
2. Nutrition & Diet Resource (2017) Available from: www.ndr-uk.org/item/19/Dementia/Eating-Well-with-Dementia.html
3. Dementia Mealtime Assessment Tool (DMAT) (2017) DMAT Available from: www.thedmat.com/
4. Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute (2016) Nutrition and dementia Available from: www.indi.ie/news/988-new-nutrition-and-dementia-practical-guide-now-available.html