Modern dining approaches in senior living embrace whole-person practices of care. Today’s modern communities focus on individualized preferences utilizing menu options, flexible dining times, restaurant-quality recipes, and a health-forward focus that optimizes the resident experience. Complementary wellbeing programming focusing on lifestyle enrichment can enhance nutritional status and bolster safeguards around malnutrition and advancing chronic disease.
- Understand how modern dining approaches enhance resident experience and help in retaining census
- Be able to describe how dining programs directly affect resident risk of malnutrition & chronic disease
- List three ways that upgrading menus, recipes, dining options and plate presentation can enhance resident satisfaction
- Understand the interconnectedness between wellbeing lifestyle programming, nutrition, and resident outcomes
- Be able to discuss the nuance of the new Dietary Guidelines as they relate to nutrition for older adults
Register here and look under the Related Resource tab to download AHCA’s new free compliance and resident experience toolkit titled Optimizing Excellence in Food & Nutrition.