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FLTCA Alignment: 15-Dietary services and hydration

Ensuring the existence of an organized program of nutritional care, dietary services, and hydration to meet the daily nutrition and hydration needs of the residents, ensuring residents are provided with food and fluids that are safe, adequate in quantity, nutritious, and varied.

  • Nutrition in Disguise Recipes and Resources

    Recipes in our Nutrition in Disguise Recipes and Resources package include different recipe options for texture modification, and were approved by residents in a taste-test based on appearance, flavour, texture and likelihood they would eat it again!

  • Food Service Careers

    Consider a career in long-term care food services if you enjoy: cooking or preparing food for others, helping people live healthy lives as they age and more!

  • Food Service Aide as a Career

    Food service aides contribute to the health and quality of life of residents.

  • Eating Assistance eCourse

    Mealtime is a highlight of the day for many residents and critical for health (nutrition, safety, and social opportunity). This course will help you to safely support mealtime with residents. 

  • Nutrition in Long-Term Care

    The Nutrition in Disguise (NID) project focuses on creating nutrient-dense recipes by adding healthy ingredients to common foods that older adults enjoy.

  • LIPHA: Learning Inter-Professionally Healthcare Accelerator

    The Learning Inter-Professionally Healthcare Accelerator (LIPHA) is a software that combines simulation-, case-, team- & story-based learning in a serious meta-simulation game world. Improve the relational care, capacity and competence levels of your LTC team members and students! Interested? Connect with the LIPHA team! What is the challenge? Team members and students in long-term care need quality training to do…

  • Menu Planning to Enhance Resident Health & Well-Being

    As part of the Ontario CLRI’s Nutrition in Disguise (NiD) initiative, this webinar will share findings from research to help chefs and nutrition managers working in LTC create meals that are more nutritious for residents. Learning Objectives Presenters Heather Keller, RD PhD,Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition in AgingSchlegel-UW Research Instuite for Aging Nancy MaNutrition Manager Food & Nutrition…

  • Improving Food Quality in Long-Term Care: Best practices and new initiatives

    During this webinar, you will learn about the Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3) research study that was conducted in long-term care homes across Canada, including useful information about food and fluid intake, better practices that were observed, where we need to focus, and new initiatives from the M3 team.