Nutrition and Dementia

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Nutrition and Dementia

• Debbie Sutton
• Dietitian

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What its not
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What it is

• Why
• What
• How
• Who
• When

• Why bother about nutrition and hydration?
• What food and drink do people need?
• How can you achieve this?
• Who to include
• When to introduce

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Why does nutrition help?

• Muscle weakness
• Poor balance and stability
• falls
• Nutrient deficiency.
• Tissue viability
• Wound healing
• Infection risk

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Pleasure of eating
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• What your menu must offer
• What are good choices?
• What should you resist?
• Nutritionally well or nutritionally vulnerable?

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Reports about nutrition
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• High nutrient density.
• Familiar.
• Easy to eat.

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Tempting a poor appetite

• Small portion sizes
• Plenty of variety
• Little and often

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Desirable dietary factors
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• Personnel and personalities.

• Initiatives

• Collaboration

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Project development
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Training needs
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Initiatives
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