Matched with products that suit a care home environment, experience of supplying the care home sector and a dedication to your business and maintaining our partnership; we will assist in ensuring your catering offering is both economically sound and culinarily exceptional.
• Care homes have an average budget of £3.50 per resident per day to cover all meals
• Care homes need to meet or exceed the CQC’s Outcome 5: Meeting Nutritional Needs as well as other CQC guidelines around health and safety
• Four in ten older people are likely to be malnourished when they enter a care home making malnutrition a key concern (Age UK January 2011)
• Many residents will have special dietary needs due to certain health conditions
• Depending on location, care homes cater for residents from different religious and cultural backgrounds and this will need to be reflected in their menus
• Staff skill level will vary, sometimes throughout the day, as a chef will only be there for core meal times
• Homes will want to obtain the highest occupancy levels to meet their financial objectives
• Hygiene and cleanliness of premises are vital to stop transmission of germs to vulnerable residents
We’re here to make your life easier and can supply suggested menu cycles for your care home, fortified recipes and product recommendations.
We also have support documents on catering for residents with Dementia & Dysphagia as well as Food Intolerances and Allergens. Please see below....
This leaflet provides a valuable insight into the nutritional issues experienced in dementia care. It gives lots of practical advice and examples for catering staff and carers to help ensure that the person with dementia receives not only a nutritionally balanced diet but is also allowed to maintain their independence and dignity while eating.
An allergy is a condition in which the sufferer reacts to a normally harmless
substance (food, pollen or other substance) by producing antibodies.
Antibodies are part of the body’s normal reaction to harmful substances like
viruses, such as the common cold. They enable the body to ‘remember’ previous
harmful substances and react quickly to them on subsequent exposure. However,
the body may react in this way to a harmless substance, such as food, producing
antibodies and other cells or chemicals that cause the symptoms of an allergy.
In some rare cases, these reactions may be fatal. Learn more here...
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