Overview

Our Diet and Nutrition Awareness course is tailored to enable staff in a range of care settings to assist their clientele in appropriately selecting their food and drink, whilst assisting with consumption.

Delegates will come away from our course with a clear understanding of how to assess the individual needs of each client, including the key minerals and nutrients which they may require. Delegates will learn ways in which they can vary their client’s diets and the impacts of good and bad nutrition on the body and health. Alongside this, the attendees will learn about malnutrition and how it affects the mind and body.

Outline of Programme

Understanding the need for nutrition
Nutrients.
The importance of fruit and vegetables
Nourishing the elderly.
What is malnutrition?
The causes of malnutrition, and how it affects the mind and body
Learning how to identify malnutrition through screening methods.

Assessment

The nutrition awareness training course takes around 2 hours and delegates may be expected to engage in several group activities. Our experienced trainers will be on hand to help guide participants through these sessions and a certificate will be awarded upon completion.