Dining
Find resources here for transforming the dining experience using leadership, assessments, and resident input.
Dining Practice Standards
Nationally agreed upon food and dining standards of practice support individualized care and self-directed living versus traditional diagnosis-focused treatment for people living in nursing homes
Enhancing the Dining Experience
Resources to support the dining experience during times of social distancing.
Flexible Dining Starter Exercise
This is part of Step Three of the Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
Flexible Dining Tipsheet
Part of Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
Just in Time Toolkit – Dining
These toolkits highlight helpful implementation resources, identify relevant regulations and point providers to results to help them find just the right path for their organization in each of three areas, environment change, dining transformations and staffing transformations
Pathway to Transforming Dining
Promising practices to de-institutionalize the dining experience
Promising Practices in Dining
Innovative examples of how providers are changing their dining practices so that it is a more dignified, pleasurable experience
The Deep Seated Issue of Choice
Addresses the issue of resident self-determination through a focus on the dining experience
The Food and Dining Side of the Culture Change Movement: Dining Symposium Background Paper
Provides the history of the culture change movement as it pertains to the physical environment, a summary of current research into building design issues and innovations, and a review of relevant federal long term care and Life Safety Code regulations for nursing homes
The Role of the Physician Order
The role of the physician in enabling nursing homes to liberalize diets which allows for resident choice
