Menu Reviews

 

Aged Care Accreditation Standards require that menus are reviewed regularly by a professional to ensure nutritional adequacy and appropriateness for residents. Menu reviews are an integral component ensuring that your residents are achieving optimal nutrition, health and quality of life and should be conducted at minimum yearly.

A menu review needs to be thorough and comprehensive and shouldn’t just be an assessment done on paper. Leading Nutrition’s comprehensive menu reviews:

  • Undertaken by an Accredited Practising Dietitian who specialises in aged care

  • Involve a site visit, including interviews with key catering, nursing, care staff and management

  • Include meal time observation and audits for serving size, presentation, nutritional adequacy and taste

  • Evaluate appropriateness for demographics, cooking methods, ingredients, flexibility, variety, and limitations

  • Evaluate systems for food and fluid service

  • Include an extensive written report with practical, aged-care specific recommendations

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    Leading Nutrition has undertaken countless menu reviews for aged care facilities across Victoria, so you can have the piece of mind that you are getting the most relevant advice from the most experienced professionals. Please call us to discuss the specific needs of your facility.