Aged Care Facilities
Quality care within Facility budgets that meet Government standards of Accreditation.
Sharon’s experience in the aged care sector spanning over 15 years ensures this is the combination you will receive when contracting her services. During this time she has worked with numerous aged care facilities across the Illawarra/Wollongong and Shoalhaven regions and can assist your facility with the provision of all nutrition services and all Accreditation issues regarding nutrition:
- Individual Resident Review, for eg review of PEG feeds
- Nutrition and Food Service Review, assessing all menus and systems relating to nutrition and hydration
- Seminars and Workshops for catering, nursing and care staff. These highly interactive sessions are designed to suit the needs, interests and time limitations of your facility and may include topics such as malnutrition/nutrition screening, dysphagia and texture modified diets, diabetes care, and wound care
- Contracted Services
Sharon can also provide regular site visits to monitor and facilitate a range of food and nutrition services including those outlined above as well as implementation of a malnutrition screening tool to identify at-risk residents, conduct weight/bowel audits, and provide assistance with policy and procedure development/review
Remember too that, with Step Bite Step, you have the option of Exercise Physiology involvement for development of exercise programs and/or assistance to ensure your residents opportunities for appropriate levels of physical activity are maximised.