Care Catering

Abbeyfield is inviting older people, who might otherwise be alone over the Christmas season, to spend time at a participating Abbeyfield house for a free lunch or even an overnight stay, providing an

But the challenge of providing the right nutritional balance for clients across the charity's range of operations can prove tricky.

Inchmarlo Continuing Care Retirement Community, in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, continues its annual culinary tasting dinners for home owners, residents and their families - wher they have the chance to

In the Bramley Diamond Dishes competition chefs and consumers will be encouraged to be creative with Bramley apples and develop a special dish to reflect this momentous occasion.

"The report contains some shocking accounts of care received by patients in hospitals across the country, focusing on four key fundamentals of care-communication, access to pain relief, assistance wit

The first phase of the campaign will involve calling on all dieitians in the UK to highlight what the BDA calls "the national disgrace that, conservatively estimated, involves around 1,000,000 older p

There is no place for malnutrition among older people in modern society, delegates were told at the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) annual forum in Blackpool.

"People say, and the NACC have said, that personalisation must be used to offer people choice and not used as a cost-cutting measure.

The key themes observed in hospitals that were failing to meet the essential standard relating to nutrition were: * People not given the help they needed to eat, meaning they struggled to eat or were

The message to the industry was: "There is no place for malnutrition amongst older people in modern society.