Food & Nutrition

Poor nutrition is commonly experienced by people with dementia. So it was with interest this week to see a new initiative from the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for the…

Department of Health The UK Chief Medical Officers’ updated guidelines for alcohol consumption have been published. You can find them here. The guidelines warn that drinking any level of alcohol…

Readers of the nutrition blog may wonder why this week’s subject is the new Patients Association Report, Survey of medicines related care of residents with dysphagia in care homes. The…

At the end of last year, the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN), a charitable association that raises awareness of malnutrition, published its Nutrition Screening Week Care Home…

Happy New Year to all! This time of year always sees a plethora of media around wonder diets and superfoods that cure all manner of diseases and disorders. One of…

What can we do to help the elderly get a restful night’s sleep? Sleep, much like air, water or food, is essential for life… Everyone experiences an occasional restless night which…

Research suggests that a considerable proportion of older people, particularly those in care, are not eating enough protein. Optimising dietary protein intakes among institutionalised individuals may prove challenging, but is…

Readers of this blog will know that malnutrition is a common clinical, public health and economic problem. But do we know what that cost is in terms of pounds and…