apetito to help care homes tackle malnutrition during Nutrition & Hydration Week
apetito dietitians, Emily Stuart and Maia Fergus-O’Grady, will be helping care homes tackles malnutrition during Nutrition & Hydration Week.
The dietitians will be offering live chat support and answering your questions between 9am and 11am from 13-17 March.
To ask Emily and Maia questions, or get advice about any aspect of nutrition, sign up using this link – apetito.link/askadietitian
apetito will also be sharing top tips on how care home staff can help provide good nutrition and hydration support to their residents. The Top Tips to Good Nutrition will be available on https://www.apetito.co.uk/news on Monday 13 March.
Emily explains why apetito is so keen to share its expertise around nutrition: “Malnutrition affects approximately three million people in the UK. It’s such a prevalent condition because it can go easily undetected, is underdiagnosed, and can be poorly understood, despite being incredibly costly to social care and largely preventable.
“Nutrition and Hydration Week has enormous value in signposting the issue and as a company that has immense expertise within its team, we are keen to share our knowledge and support care homes dealing with malnutrition.
“We hope by answering questions and sharing our Top Tips, we’re able to help those caring for residents who would value some helpful guidance.”
It’s estimated that some 35% of residents enter a care home with malnutrition.
To find out more about apetito’s care homes meal service visit https://carehomes.apetito.co.uk/ or call 0808 239 2399.