CHSP Provider Hub

Sector Support and Development colleagues Healthy Ageing Tasmania recently added to their suite of practical resources to help you strengthen nutrition care across community aged care services. They have easy to use templates, tools and guides to help you demonstrate that you’re meeting the new requirements.

Services that provide food - centre based or home delivered meals

Policy, procedures and continuous improvement

• Meal services self-audit for In-home Meal Requirements helps services track progress.
• Nutrition and hydration policy templates that can be adapted to suit your organisation’s needs.
• Quality Assurance Framework guide and template to support continuous quality improvement.
• Meal satisfaction survey to help gather valuable feedback from older people and support continuous service improvement.
• Service-led mealtime audit tools assist services to reflect on what they are doing well and where there are opportunities to improve.

Menu planning and implementation

• Texture modified meal guides to support the safe preparation and provision of texture modified foods and fluids.
• Menu planning factsheets with practical guidance for meal providers.

Clinical services

Malnutrition screening and responding to malnutrition risk is now required under the new Aged Care Quality Standards – Standard 5: Clinical Care.

Malnutrition screening policy and procedure template supports the implementation of malnutrition screening, nutrition care processes and referral pathways.

Assessment services

The initial My Aged Care Service Assessment is an important opportunity to identify concerns early and refer for the appropriate support.

Recognising hidden nutrition risks in the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) fact sheet helps Assessors uncover nutrition concerns and know when to refer to a Dietitian for more support.

Healthy Ageing Tasmania's Eating well with Dementia webinar was recently revamped and they've added two new titles:

• Eating well for wound healing
• Dairy and alternatives for bone health