Program Contents: 43 minutes
Captioning: None
Copyright Date: 2008
VOLUME 14
Illness, isolation, and the inability to shop or prepare foods often has a negative impact on the health of older adults. Serving nutritious foods and providing companionship at meal times can significantly improve well-being and overall health.
Meal planning, food shopping and meal preparation are the most valuable services that caregivers can provide. This program teaches important information about nutrition for older adults and presents skills and tools that enable care providers to develop enjoyable, healthy meals that suit the particular needs of each client.
Topics covered include:
• Food Pyramid and recommended diet for older adults
• Common serving sizes
• Value of high fiber diet
• Medically-prescribed diets: low fat, low sodium, and diabetic
• Warning signs of malnutrition
• Meal planning
• Food Shopping
• Reading labels
• Unit Pricing
• Safe Food Handling
• Preparation Methods
• Cooking with a recipe
• How to measure ingredients
• Microwave and Stove safety
• Cooking methods
• Setting the Table
• Serving the Meal
Program comes with 10 pages of support materials, which include outline, learning objectives, key points and definitions, test and answer key.
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