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Eating well in care homes for older people
- Author:
- CARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
This report details what the Care Commission found when it looked in detail at five areas of food and nutrition in a sample of 303 care homes for older people in Scotland during inspections in 2006 to 2007, investigated 91 complaints about eating, drinking and nutrition in 2006 to 2007, looked at the improvement notices that were served on care homes in 2008 to 2009, and worked with staff called nutrition champions to make improvements in eating, drinking and nutritional care in the care homes where they were working. The Care Commission found that just over half (51%) of the 303 care homes met the National Care Standards in all the five areas that were looked at. Taken together, this report’s findings from inspections, complaints and enforcement action highlight areas in which everyone involved with care services for older people in Scotland can take action to improve standards of nutritional care.
Promoting nutrition in care homes for older people
- Author:
- CARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
This report evaluates a programme aimed at improving nutrition in Scotland’s care homes for older people. Programme partners were the Scottish Government, the Care Commission and the Care Homes for Older People Dietitians Network. They, with expert help, designed and delivered the programme and evaluated its impact. The programme partners recruited 112 people who worked in care homes across Scotland, including chefs, care workers and managers. They were asked to become nutrition champions and take part in a six-month programme that would help them learn more about nutrition for older people, give them expert and practical advice from dietitians, develop individual projects to improve some aspects of nutrition in the care home that each worked in, give them the skills they need to make changes in their own care homes, learn from each other and share their experiences in meetings, and online. Everyone involved in the programme gave their feedback, at every stage. This included projects that the nutrition champions put in place in their care homes.