Nutrition is a general term that includes the intake of food, digestion, and the body’s ability to convert it to energy to maintain overall health and well-being.
Tips & Links
- Nutrition for seniors can be impacted by health conditions, reduced mobility or sight, confusion or dementia, income, and access to groceries.
- Learn more about how good nutrition contributes to healthy aging from Healthlink BC.
- Depression, loneliness, and inactivity can lead to a poor appetite or just ‘not feeling hungry’.
- Learn about healthy eating tips for seniors from HelpGuide.org.
- Consider ways you can address your needs such as a nutritional assessment by a dietitian, community delivery services, pre-made paid for home delivery, home care services that includes someone coming in to provide meal preparation, a home safety assessment, and calling on your care partners for support.
- Think about the different types of meal support that you might need such as meal planning (consider food allergies and sensitivities), grocery shopping, meal preparation, safety of using the stove/ kitchen equipment, eating with others and monitoring food safety (expiry of fresh and packaged foods),
- If interested, explore meal services in your community that provide home delivery, ethnic choices, and volunteers who may include an emotional health check-in.
- Check out the guide on eating healthy suggested by First Nations Health Authority.
- Check out the Healthy Eating Suggestions for Seniors that has been printed in a number of languages.
- For specific questions about your diet and nutrition, you can email a Dietitian in BC or Dial a Dietitian at 811 or for Hard of Hearing 711 at Healthlink BC.
- If you have a special diet or preferences, make a list of your favourite meals. Share with your care partners so they can make meals for your freezer – be sure to include your preferences of salt, spices and flavours.
- Include your specific diet requirements and recipes in the section My Day to Day in your Mywell Health planner.
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