15 November 2024

Its UK Malnutrition Awareness Week and Ealing Community Partners are raising awareness about the signs of malnutrition.

Good nutrition and hydration is vital to enabling older to people to live fulfilling and independent lives.

The team are asking everyone to Ask, Look and Listen:

Meet ECP’s Dietitian Vicky Nikodimova and Nutrition Practitioners Anusha Gunawardena and Vimbai Tendengu.

The team have been working to improve the care and identification of malnutrition in care homes. They created a video to standardise their MUST & Food First training and developed a support video version (20 minutes long) for nursing homes to use whenever required (e.g. for new staff, night staff unable to attend sessions in the day, refresher sessions).

This video training will be shared with 27 care homes across Ealing which receive nutrition support. The team will continue providing face to face sessions when required.

Looking ahead to future, the team will explore the possibilities to produce more videos to reach a wider audience for specific patient groups, to provide support with challenges they are facing with their diet because of their condition (e.g. dementia, Parkinsons disease, MND).