Addresses the issue of resident self-determination through a focus on the dining experience
Resource Category: Dining
Find resources here for transforming the dining experience using leadership, assessments, and resident input.
The Role of the Physician Order
The role of the physician in enabling nursing homes to liberalize diets which allows for resident choice
Dining Memory and Food for Thought
Ideas from neuroscience, psychology and literature that can be used as tools to help build alternate approaches to choice and dining in nursing homes
Home Style Dining Interventions in Nursing Homes: Implications for Practice
An overview of meal service in nursing homes, reasons for implementing home style dining, outcomes of home style dining intervention, and implementation challenges and recommendations
Pathway to Transforming Dining
Promising practices to de-institutionalize the dining experience
