Pay attention to the nutritional adequacy of assisted living and nursing home meals. You may need to send protein powders and supplements to help your loved ones.
Many patients just donxt eat them altogether because they don’t taste good to begin with. Sub-par taste doesn’t help the patients eat and absorb what little nutrition they may contain.
If anyone has ever spent any time at all in hospitals or nursing homes, they know how horrific most of the food is and generally the smell is even worse.
I’ll bet more than 70% of it ends up in the trash.
“Pay attention to the nutritional adequacy of assisted living and nursing home meals. You may need to send protein powders and supplements to help your loved ones.”
Along with beef and pork, and then take away crap they’re fed, particularly the carb-heavy stuff. The hospitals and nursing homes are FORCED to follow what the federal government tells them, even if its proven wrong, are they are at risk of being sued.
It ALL comes out of DC, which is horribly compromised by revolving doors, even hospitals in Germany, per this article. Hopefully RFK can turn this tanker around, but it’s a massive job, and those special interests will fight to the teeth to stop him.
The elderly lose their sense of taste from medications and just plain old age. One little lady at age 93 would only eat sweets because that was all she could taste. Thankfully, she wasn’t diabetic.
Trying to get them to eat some plant based diet when a sense of taste is gone, textures of food can be nauseating and dentures don’t fit anymore along with the sheer fatigue many feel is hard.
Yes, we let her have the cookies and cake. And Ensure.
Fix hospital food, it must be far eorse!!!
My wife took over filling the NJ tube pump. I was still having problems holding food down. The MRSA pneumonia and abscess between my stomach and liver was limiting my stomach capacity. It took 5 weeks of vancomycin and cephalosporin IV to clear the infections. Once cleared, I was able to eat real food and I pulled the NJ tube a month later.
Bottom line, the rehab place was oriented to fleecing the insurance benefits for 20 days and bringing inedible "food" in 3 times a day. The protein shakes from Costco prevented more weight loss than necessary.
“This leads to an inadequate provision of nutrients and low dietary quality.”
I can understand this in Germany. Maybe they should eat at the US public schools when savory beans and fish sticks were the preferred, by the schools, cuisine across the nation of Fridays featured staple. I can witness they were not exactly the highlight of the menu.
wy69
That’s why I Door Dash or Instacart every time I’m hospitalized. The staff hate it, but at least I’m getting real food.
I once worked in a nursing home where Sunday night dinner was scrambled eggs and a side of beets. Staff was served bologna sandwiches on stale bread. The big dinner consisted of hard boiled beef chuck that was so tough that even young staff with good teeth couldn’t eat it.
Different places have different dietary practices, hospitals too.
My mother was a cook at the nursing home in the 60’s. She was the favorite cook for staff and residents. The reason, she used some salt.........................
At the same time, refined grains made up over 20% of calories, and red meat accounted for 10 to 17%—resulting in poor overall dietary quality.
I say let them enjoy what little time they have left.
Not much different than schools and jails.
Or any other institutional setting.
It would be nice if the nursing home food was good and tasty. Old folks there have little to look forward to left in life. Often the food is tasteless and drab.
People in a nursing facility are on their way out and nutrition is no longer important to them.
Bkmk
Coule years ago, I spent 3 nights in hospital. They had contracted food out. It was actually pretty good, if you made the right choices.
I was in a rehab situation for two weeks this year. The food was inevitable. They sent the nutritionist to talk to me and I told her that there is nothing in Real on the plate. It was on plastic food and it couldn’t possibly make anybody healthy and I couldn’t eat it. It was useless. She had no idea what I was talking about. So I had to have people bring me a protein powder and juices and coconut water to survive.