Provide a dining experience that promotes independence, dignity, and accessibility.
In nursing homes and senior living facilities all over the country, meals for memory care residents – primarily those with neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s and other related dementia – are often uninspiring and child-like.
These residents are often, for the sake of convenience, served easy-to-handle food like French fries, chicken nuggets, and pizza rolls.
Worse, if they are not served the same meal the other residents in the facility eat.
Mealtime often becomes awkward, frustrating, and downright embarrassing for the resident, with food falling off of forks and spoons, rolling down the resident’s clothes, and falling on the floor.
Senior Living Chefs provide training to the Chefs at the communities on the Bites of Flavor technique and service standards.
We also provide management training tools to help support the dining initiative to make it a sustainable program.
The idea is for residents to be able to eat on their own—to create that independence for them.
Bites of Flavor! assists the resident in the sense that they aren’t marginalized because they have cognitive or physical limitations. They’re the same as everyone else in the dining room. Our food is the same food presented and prepared differently, but it’s the same food. It’s all about inclusion.
