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Meal Time Matters

Are you constantly battling patient malnutrition, dehydration and unsafe feeding techniques at your facility? Think you could make significant improvements in patients' lives if only you could better train nursing assistants, dining assistants and others?

If only you had a short, effective presentation stressing that "Meal Time Matters!"

If only you had the time to create that presentation....

Meal Time Matters is a COMPLETE TRAINING PROGRAM for long-term care facilities that builds nursing assistants' skills related to dining, swallowing disorders, and safe feeding assistance. Topics covered include: normal swallowing, signs and symptoms of disordered swallowing, diets and liquid consistencies, assistive eating devices, and safe meal time guidelines. (This project was funded by the Mt. Sinai Healthcare Foundation.)

This training program includes EVERYTHING you need to give an
effective presentation:

• CD with a 45-minute PowerPoint presentation
• Trainer's speaking text for each slide
• Three interactive exercises lasting 5-15 minutes each
• 8-minute DVD — Solutions To Meal Time Challenges
• Participant handouts
• Skills checklist for nursing assistants
• Learning assessment

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Also Available:

• Meal Time Matters — At Home
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Target Audience

A training program designed to teach nursing assistants, dining assistants and others proper and safe skills related to dining, swallowing disorders, and safe feeding assistance.

Author

Jennifer A. Brush, M.A., CCC-SLP, is an internationally published researcher, educator, and long-term care consultant currently in practice in Northeast Ohio. Ms. Brush specializes in geriatric care, rehabilitation programming, and interdisciplinary activity development for dementia. As a sought after speaker, she offers interactive and educational presentations that help audiences to bridge the gap between current research findings and the care needs of their clients and communities. Ms. Brush has first hand applied research experience as she has served as the Principal Investigator on both government and private foundation grants. She is the co-author of A Therapy Technique for Improving Memory: Spaced Retrieval, and Time Well Spent with the Older Adult. She is the editor of IDEAS for a Better Visit, as well as the author of numerous articles related to cognitive disorders, memory loss, and dementia.