The Importance Of Food And Mealtimes in Dementia Care: The Table Is Set

With a growing awareness of the importance of social relations for persons with dementia,we see how essential it is to make use of meeting places for contact and stimulation. Mealtimes are important events in the course of a day. Everybody has a relationship to food and mealtimes, to what tastes good and what is congenial.With a thorough organization of conditions the ability to eat on one’s own can be maintained for a long time.
Mealtimes are more than food. They can imply companionship around a table with well-known activities, and can include possibilities of interaction and contact, positive experiences. In the monotonous days in an institution, mealtimes can constitute smaller or larger oases in the routine.