Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Nutrition and community meals

Recently I've been building a wiki on neighbourhood support for older people, to try and focus information and understanding on this crassly-overlooked issue. I'll open it soon, but meanwhile if you're interested in contributing please get in touch.

MealDelivery Here's the sort of thing that goes into the pot, so to speak: ILC-UK have published a paper by Lisa Wilson on Personalisation, nutrition and the role of community meals. It notes that there is a strong underlying economic argument for supporting older people to remain independent and in their own homes, and for ensuring good nutritional status. It begins with a striking statistic:

'There are currently more people in the UK receiving meals in their own home than there are older people in care homes.'

Hence one of the main arguments:

'Meal provision and access to food must be considered a core part of social care packages and meals must be provided to at risk groups, not just to those who have reached the point of being unable to manage themselves.'

21 Apr 2010 15:00:04 | Informal support, Older people

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Hi

I am interested in contributing to this wiki please.

Please get in touch via e-mail supplied if you are still looking for people.

Thanks

Posted by: alex | Thursday, 22 April 2010 at 06:45

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