Nutritional Care for Older People: A Guide to Good Practice

The stated target audience for this book includes proprietors, managers and staff of residential homes, day centres, meals‐on‐wheels services, and community catering services for older people. The author aims to raise the awareness among those groups of the importance of food, in the widest sense, to the well‐being of their clients. She deals both with relevant background nutritional issues and with practical information and guidance, providing a basis from which a model of best practice can be developed.

The main topics covered by the book chapters are how ageing impacts on nutrition, cultural and religious factors influencing the role of...