Food & Nutrition

Unintentional weight loss can be a warning sign of malnutrition, which can be both a cause and consequence of serious health conditions. Malnutrition not only increases the risk of illness…

It’s Nutrition and Hydration week again! The week aims to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally and globally. In the week, many…

Cognitive decline is a significant problem of ageing with major health and socio-economic impacts; therefore, preventing or delaying the onset of cognitive disorders should be a public health priority. In…

Flu and other respiratory infections are a major cause of hospitalisation, morbidity and death among older people. Underlying chronic health conditions make service users both more susceptible and vulnerable to…

Next week I am speaking at a Healthy Ageing event in Cardiff on nutrition and age–related disease. So it’s been a good opportunity to reflect on the importance of diet…

Turmeric seems to be everywhere these days; in high street coffee shops (turmeric latte anybody?), as a ‘superfood’ in popular diets, in the recipes of celebrity bloggers and in media…

There have been worrying reports that some staff in care homes may be giving food with meat to vegetarians because with dementia ‘they may not know the difference’. Yet this…

A popular newspaper recently reported statistics under the headline Kill by mouth that hunger and/or dehydration were a factor in 828 patient deaths in hospitals and care homes in 2014/2015.…