Tips for Increasing Protein Intake at Home
Learn some easy, accessible ways to add protein to your daily diet. Ensuring adequate protein intake is important for overall health and wellbeing, but even more so for those challenged...
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Disaster Planning for Your Foodservice Facility
Disaster can strike at any time—is your facility prepared? When a natural disaster hits your facility, it’s important that you’re prepared. Unexpected circumstances can throw a wrench into the normal...
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Why Are Food and Fluids so Important for Aging Seniors?
Did you know? By Cherie Furlan-Craievich RD, Food Services Consultant Up to 2 out of 3 longterm care residents experience malnutrition, and 3,754 of 100,000 adults over age 85 have protein-calorie malnutrition related...
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How to Deal With Food Supply Shortages in Your Foodservice Operation
Addressing shortages and coming up with solutions around food supply management is key for foodservice operations. By Cherie Furlan-Craievich RD, Food Services Consultant Over the last few years, many different...
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Recipe for Success: Improving the Dining Experience
Helpful tips for improving the dining experience for the residents at your facility. By Cherie Furlan-Craievich RD, Food Services Consultant Person-centered dining promotes the health and wellbeing of long-term care...
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The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care
Caring for people at the end-of-life comes with a unique set of challenges and responsibilities, including trying to balance a person’s health and wellness while giving them the best quality...
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Managing Hydration with Dysphagia
Written by Cherie Furlan-Craievich RD, Food Service Consultant As we know individuals with dysphagia all have diverse nutritional needs-they can be “nutritionally well” or “nutritionally vulnerable”. Dysphagia, or swallowing impairment...
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Caring for Caregivers
While they’re busy caring for everyone else, are they being cared for? Even before the pandemic, home caregivers were easing the burden on the healthcare system by volunteering billions of...
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Tips for Managing Dysphagia at Home During the Holidays
Get some tips from the experts on how to make your holiday season with dysphagia easier and safer than ever. Managing dysphagia at home can be difficult and time-consuming at...
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Strategies for COVID-19 Staffing Shortages from the Experts
Learn what strategies 8 hospital execs are doing to ensure that their patients are taken care of, even in the wake of staffing shortages caused by COVID-19. The strain of...
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