Are mealtimes in your facility a burden or a joy? Does the answer depend on whom you ask, residents or staff? To make the answer to this question a resounding positive for all concerned, let Bon Appetit! be your guide.
Based on a proven mealtime program for elder care facilities, this book demonstrates how to restore the simple pleasures of eating to residents. Here are innumerable ways to turn meals into prime times for building relationships, supporting identities, providing pleasing sensory stimulation, and improving functional skills. Now you can feed the spirit along with the body. Residents and staff alike will benefit!
The authors—a renowned occupational therapist and an international hospitality consultant in food and beverage services—offer a comprehensive program that addresses the unique challenges and opportunities presented by adult day services and long-term care settings. Their program covers:
- food selection and presentation
- individual resident programming
- environmental modifications
- staff training and support
- organizational change and program maintenance
- PLUS—72 ready-to-use recipes for tasty, nutritious and manageable alternatives to traditional institutional foods
Critical assessment tools and a complete training itinerary help staff integrate the principles of resident autonomy and person-centered care into their work. Special attention is also devoted to identifying the needs of people with dementia.
Learn to do more than just keep your residents’ bodies alive—you can keep them living with respectful, meaningful mealtimes made positive with Bon Appetit!
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“an excellent resource for all health care providers involved in either preparing or serving meals to seniors in long term care facilities or adult day care programs … truly a unique and excellent work”
—Activities, Adaptation, & Aging
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“The [book’s] vision, concrete plans, practical ideas and recipes given are excellent. There is much more to dining than food and this book will open your mind to the best of the more.”
—Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly
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“If our overriding goal is to help residents have a pleasant dining experience that begins with appealing food, these recipes are hard to argue with.”
—Alzheimer’s Care Quarterly
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“If only all facilities would take on the commitment of the Bon Appetit! program … I recommend that geriatric care managers seek out [Bon Appetit!].”
—Inside GCM
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“Bon Appetit! provoked good culinary thinking …This book will be of great value to the entire chain of command of a dining services department in a long-term care facility. The most seasoned Chef, Production Managers, or Dining Services Managers will gain practical ideas, and will find different ways to make good meals great meals.”
—Contemporary Gerontology