Nursing Home food

#1

I am a registered nurse in aged care. How do we get aged care facilities to cook the food the residents used to eat before they were admitted? Nursing homes serve up cheap CARBAGE slop and ‘finger food’ so it’s quicker. The poor residents aren’t given enough time to eat… they don’t recognise half the meal and it’s put down to their ‘cognitive impairment’. Then staff bring them ice cream and caramel sauce so they can say they ate something.

What happened to eating meat and veggies like they always did. No fat people in the 60s… there are studies that Obesity, Diabesity have grown exponentially and Alzheimer’s is now being called Diabetes type III. Any google search shows now that a Low Carb Diet can Improve Alzheimer’s Disease. https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20051018/high-fat-low-carb-diet-may-help-alzheimers How do we start this conversation, and add this to our push for a new standard guidelines and a bacon pyramid.

(Bacon for the Win) #2

blame it on the government’s dietary guidelines. That’s what determines the food supplied to most institutions. Follow Nina Teicholz and Nutrition Coalition to be an advocate for change.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

I’m raising this very issue with the home where my mother spent her final two years (I wasn’t keto then), and will report back on the result. It’s a very well-run place, and they are open to suggestions. I just don’t know how closely they need to toe the line of the nutritional guidelines. One of the nurses went keto and lost a lot of weight, so I have hopes.

(Alec) #4

Oh yes, I vote for a bacon pyramid!! :joy:

(Alec) #5

Has anyone stood for election under a keto banner? I am thinking of doing that!!

(karen) #6

My mother is in a retirement community. As someone in independent living, she is still required to eat a certain number of meals in the community restaurant. The choices are excellent - tonight I’ve got a choice of sirloin tips, flounder with shrimp stuffing, soup and salad bar, and ginger chicken with almonds. HOWEVER, if she were to move to the assisted living facility on the premises, she would be served a required menu very similar to hospital food - say a slice of turkey in gravy, a piece of white bread, a scoop of mashed potato, cranberry sauce and jello, with a plastic cup of … pinkness on the side. I think it’s pretty clear that it’s the national dietary guidelines / institutional rules at fault; once people can’t choose for themselves, the carb-poisoning begins.

#7

My mother is currently in a facility with “extra services” on the Gold Coast. Her meals are the ones i described… And she is Diabetes type 1 getting ice cream and caramel sauce!!!

#8

I could move to Bega :laughing:

(Alec) #9

You would be most welcome, and the food is lovely here! I am finding all the cafe keto food slowly but surely!

(karen) #10

Awesome. Do they hook her up to a glucose IV for the few minutes she might not be sugar saturated? :angry:

(Maha) #11

This is one big reason I’m ever so glad to be keto: I don’t ever want to be dependent on an institution for my food or well being. Granted, being keto won’t guarantee I won’t have other reasons to become dependent, but my risk went down greatly when I made the switch.

I’m guessing places like this contract their food out and don’t really oversee the quality. But ultimately, it does come down to the dietary guidelines changing, but that’s not for a long while.

#12

The “hypoglycaemic” first aid kit is a can of lemonade :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

#13

Yesterday i spoke with a resident in Aged Care. When he was admitted he was Diagnosed NIDDM. When BGL normal GP said he’s not diabetic and stop measuring BGL. Nearly a year later they missed his rise and he was Ketoacidotic and admitted to ICU.
Now diagnosed insulin dependent Diabetes. In aged care. Dietician told him to eat carbs, carbs, carbs… He’s 100kg. Depressed. He loves Fat, meat, bacon and eggs only served on Wednesdays. He called the Nursing Home a PRISON. As a pensioner he now cant afford extra food.
All he gets is what they give him. He is 20+kg overweight. Thanks to dieticians and Govt. Accredited Managers serving our senior citizens the cheapest carbage… They know no better…

#14

How do we start the conversation to change the SAD guidelines in Australia? Do we have a Nutrition Coalition? Lets get the pyramid out of Australia.

(Mollyann Hesser) #15

Im lost too. I pulled my mom out of a nursing home because she was being injected with insulin while being fed a very high carb diet. Very high. Higher than the SAD.
She complained that everything was too sweet, so she wouldn’t eat it. She said the food was tasteless and had no texture. It seemed like torture for being old.
She didn’t need insulin! She needed food. Real food. The kind she used to cook for us. And she got it.

#16

what did you do to effect change?