Do your staff have the basic nutritional education to support healthy eating guidelines? Through increased nutritional training, you can improve your staff’s nutritional education, resulting in better nutritional outcomes for your residents.
Prepared by: Michael Dobie
Presented by: Wellness & Lifestyles
Nutritional care of the Australian elderly is a clear comprehensive training presentation that educates carers on nutrition and health promotion for older adults. It covers topics such as costs of malnutrition, food fortification tips, the Dietary Guidelines of Older Australians and what carers can do to help.
That is why W&L has created the Nutritional Care of the Australian Elderly training which aims to explore common nutritional issues amongst the elderly.
What this training can do for you…
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Educate staff on how to identify nutritional problems
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Educate staff on what can be done about them
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Ensuring staff can effectively deliver nutritional support of healthy eating principles
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Improve knowledge of where to seek further assistance
Included in this training is…
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Frequent nutritional issues
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Unstable diabetes and the action of insulin
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GI or Glycaemic Index
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Low GI foods
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Variety and balance in menu planning
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Healthy snack ideas
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Signs, causes and treatment of hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia
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Living with diabetes
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Dietary guidelines of older Australians
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Malnutrition
Who should use this training?
You should go through this training if you are involved in the preparation and/or provision of residents’ foods or elderly people that you care for. In effect this would cover all staff members or carers who have a responsibility to support healthy eating.
Food and the provision of nutritious food to residents is vital in ensuring the nutrient reference values are met of all residents.
Residents’ nutritional well being is essential to best resident health outcomes. However it is understood that even the most nutritious menu cycle or the most educated staff will not solve all the nutritional issues that arise. Food and the provision of food is complex.
This educational session is therefore important to ensure nutritional education is updated and supported, because this ultimately impacts on the nutritional status of the residents in whom we advocate best practice for.
