Dining
Meals are tasty, healthy & social
Mealtimes are important events in the typical Brookridge day. For our residents, it is a chance to enjoy a variety of tasty foods and satisfy their appetite.
These gatherings also provide opportunities to converse and mingle with friends and family. For residents who are not very social, they still benefit from being amid the chatter and camaraderie. The meals also provide comfort to those who desire consistency in their daily routine.
The Staff is involved in many ways
Mealtimes are very active for our staff members. Of course there is the preparation, the serving, and the clean up. There is a lot more going on, however, while our residents are pleasing their palates with the foods and recipes that reflect the era they grew up in…
- Our staff strives to make everyone happy, even with all the different taste preferences in the dining room.
- They tackle this monumental challenge with energy, creativity, talent, and compassion.
- They also talk to the residents, so they can continually fine-tune our fabulous dining experiences to their liking.
- Our staff and family members help those residents who have difficulty using utensils and/or need encouragement to eat the foods necessary for maintaining one’s health.
- Our staff (and family members, too), look for changes from day-to-day/meal-to-meal… has appetite increased? Decreased? Is someone not eating at all?
- Our staff designs and prepares meals for residents with special diets (i.e. low salt and diabetic).
- Our staff encourages the residents to interact with one another, and themselves, during mealtime.
- By being so diligent during mealtimes, we feel we make the dining process more productive, more rewarding, more social and more enjoyable.