Menu & Recipe Packages
I am considering purchasing your Nursing Home Traditional Menu & Recipe package. Do you think these menus would be appropriate for a facility with both long term care and acute care patients?
I am sure you will find our menus appropriate for both the settings. Here in Ohio we have them in place in the same facility settings you mentioned, and they are well received by clients. The Menu & Recipe package is well organized and user friendly. I would also suggest another popular manual, Dysphagia Diet Solutions, for your dysphagia clients needing texture modifications such as the National Dysphagia Diets and thickened liquids. It has over specific 80 recipes designed specifically for the various levels of dysphagia diets.
Tools for MRDD/DDPD
I have been working in a residential and intermediate care facility for MRDD for the last 10 months. I am a new member of the Dietitians in Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders DPG. It seems from the listserv that many of my colleagues are new to this field, as am I. Can you create some products for us? I think assessment is the main issue, as often it appears that figuring out calorie needs is difficult for this population. There are lots of texture and consistency issues also, and consumer education is hard if they are moderately and severely MR.
We have a number of publications that may be helpful to you: Our Diet Manual simplified version, Menus and Recipes for Group Homes, Dysphagia Diet Solutions, Forms book (assessment and other forms for MRDD), copy ready Diet Instructions, and Inservices for staff education.
Inservices
Do you offer a simple educational tool that can be used to teach foodservice supervisors the basics of modified diets?
We have a few items that might be helpful! The Understanding Special Diets inservice (simplified and geared toward dietary workers) or our Simplified Diet Manual (covers all the basic diets).