The New Dining Practice Standards Impacting Long Term Care
Hot off the press. DHCC Connections has published an article that Linda Handy, MS, RD and I co-authored about the Pioneer Network’s New Dining Practice Standards. Enjoy! The New Dining Practice Standards Impacting Long Term Care Linda Roberts
The New Dining Practice Standards
The New Dining Practice Standards were released September 7! Pioneer Network in conjunction with CMS convened the Food & Dining Clinical Standards Task Force. The event brought together professionals from multiple clinical disciplines including ADA, AMDA, NADONA, ASHA, AOTA, etc to discuss and agree upon dining practice standards supporting person centered care and culture change values. […]
Letting Go of Therapeutic Diets
Pioneer Network’s New Dining Practice Standards support ADA’s Position on individualizing the elder’s diet. For practitioners, it’s time to let go . . . Individualized, liberal diets are the foundation of The New Dining Practice Standards published by the Pioneer Network. And why not? Evidence based research continues to support therapeutic diets are detrimental at worst, […]