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Where is the Jamie Oliver for care homes?
A training centre for school cooks has been established to help staff who have never been trained to cook nutritious and delicious meals from scratch. This is almost certainly a follow on from the Jamie Oliver momentum from a few years ago. Quite rightly schools have raised their game and also the budget for school dinners.
Where does this leave care homes? Care home catering needs some Jamie Oliver momentum - a celebrity who cares about food in care homes as much as we do. Food in a care home not only provides the nutrition and enjoyment of a meal but also the social centre of the day. A time to interact with others and chat.
At Chosen with Care we believe food is going to be the next 'big thing' in care homes. It is going to be one of the main differentiators between homes. It is simple for visitors and relatives to assess, we are all experts on food - we know what is good and what is bad.
Care homes, it might be time to start looking at a care home catering school...
At Chosen with Care we want to inform families, before there is a crisis, about the issues that need to be considered when you are looking for a care home. At a recent care event that we organised, we talked about everything to do with care. At the event we spoke to a lovely couple and received this testimonial - 'My Mum spoke to me for quite a while on Sunday, to say how impressed she had been and how glad they were they had gone along. Both my Nanna and Grandma had dementia before they died and my Uncle has it now. They did not know about the affect small strokes have on developing Dementia and following the advice they received, my Dad is going to attend his doctors and demand an MRI scan, as he had a stroke about a year ago. Thank you from myself as well, this has been really helpfully for my parents.' Jonathan H.