Food and drink
The following videos and resources explore the theme of food and drink in more detail.
Eating well at home
Eating and drinking well can help your body to fight infection and illness and boosts your overall wellbeing. This will enable you to maintain healthy muscles and bones, helping you to stay mobile, whilst reducing your risk of falls and fractures… Click here for more information.
Tips for eating and drinking
This booklet was made by the Aberdeen City Adult Speech and Language Therapy service, with support by the NHS Grampian Speech and Language Therapy Dementia Working Group (2023) - Click to read.
There is lots of good advice on how to look after your nutrition and your overall wellbeing at the following websites:
The Association of UK Dieticians:
https://www.bda.uk.com/food-health/food-facts.html
Food factsheets on a range of nutrition topics written by Dietitians.
Carers UK:
https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/health
Information on how carers can look after their nutrition.
Why not try making homemade lemonade this week:
BBC Homemade lemonade
Click on the link to get this simple recipe from the BBC, the process takes less than 30 minutes and there’s no cooking required.
Dementia Circles
Dementia Circles invites people with dementia to share their experiences of using particular products. The website offers useful feedback by people with dementia about particular types of crockery and other kitchen utensils that might be helpful. Here’s a few examples that relate to drinking, click on the images for more information:
BBC Good Food non-alcoholic cocktail recipes
Discover Good Food's best ever mocktail recipes for every occasion, including non-alcoholic punch, mulled drinks, juices, spritzers, cordials and coolers.
Blogpost - Eating Drinking and Swallowing self-management resource
Eating and drinking are really important to us all not just for nutrition and hydration but also for the patterns of our day, comfort and socialising. People living with dementia may find that they experience changes and difficulties around eating and drinking that impact all of these things… Click here to read more.
