Meals Are Tasty, Healthy & Social

Mealtimes are important events in the typical Autumn Years day. For our residents, it is a chance to enjoy tasty foods and satisfy their appetite.

These gatherings also provide opportunities to converse and mingle with friends and family. And for those who struggle with communication, they still benefit from being amid the chatter and camaraderie. The meals also provide consistent segments in the daily routine. This helps many of our residents stay within their comfort zone.

The Staff Is Involved In Many Ways

Mealtimes are very active for our staff members. Of course, there is the preparation, the serving and the clean up. However, there is a lot more going on while our residents are pleasing their palates, often with foods and recipes that reflect the era they grew up in.

• Our staff (and family members, too) help those residents who have difficulty using utensils and/or need encouragement to eat the foods necessary for maintaining one's health..
• Our staff (and family members, too), looks for changes from day to day, meal to meal. Has appetite increased? Decreased? Is energy level as high as yesterday?
• Our staff actually charts what the residents eat and drink...and don't eat and drink. This information is given to the nurse for review.
• Our staff encourages the residents to interact with one another, and themselves, during mealtime.

By being so diligent during mealtimes, we feel we make the dining process more productive, more rewarding, more social and more enjoyable.