A dietician appointed to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Advisory Council has called for mandatory malnutrition screenings and food audits in nursing homes.  Practising dietitian Julie Dundon joined the 11-person council this week, amid ongoing debates over poor nutrition ...

Aged care chefs and cooks will learn how to create tasty pureed meals, design a culturally inclusive menu, and learn to flavour finger food as part of a new online masterclass developed by the Maggie Beer Foundation. The first education ...

Certain considerations must always be contemplated and envisaged before implementing changes to an environment where an elderly person resides, to ensure they are as comfortable, safe and happy as possible. One area of growing concern is hydration and nutrition, which ...

After serving dishes in exclusive resorts and fine dining restaurants, French chef Stephan Blant said that working in residential care has offered a different type of reward.   “It’s life changing,” he told Aged Care Insite. “Unlike in a hotel, where ...

It has been over 30 years since female hysteria was unlisted as an official diagnosis, and we have learned very little about women's health since then, according to researcher, neurologist and author Professor Cassandra Szoeke. "When people say 'women's health' ...

While keeping food spend low in aged care might seem like a cost-saving measure, it’s actually a false economy. That’s one of the messages Dr Sandra Iuliano, who provided evidence at the aged care royal commission, sent to the sector via ...

Older hospital patients are not getting all their vitamins. Recent Flinders University research has found large numbers in the cohort have been found to have severe vitamin C deficiency. The findings give some credence to previous media reports of increased ...

Does swapping out current tube-fed formulas with an energy-enriched option lift survival rates among critically ill patients? This was “one of the most important unanswered questions” in the field of critical care nutrition, Monash University’s Dr Emma Ridley said. Ridley, ...

Research estimates that more than 110,000 Australians may be living with Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by reduced control of fine motor skills, tremors, slowness of movements, impaired mobility, swallowing issues and impaired speech. As a result, staying nourished ...

Stephen Ratcliffe on the important link between nutrition and wound care and healing. For many clients and their carers, the link between nutrition and wound care is not easily understood. But in the context of food as the building block ...