About the Book
Bon Appetit! offers a comprehensive program that addresses the unique challenges and
opportunities presented by adult day services and long-term care settings. The program is
an intelligible, beginning-to-end implementation guide that covers food selection and
presentation, individual resident programming, staff training and support, environmental
modifications, and organizational change and program maintenance.
Focusing on principles of resident autonomy and person-centered care, this program
provides opportunities for social interaction, activity programming, functional
improvements, and sensory pleasures. Special attention is devoted to identifying the needs
of people with dementia. Critical assessment tools and a complete training itinerary are
among the invaluable aids you'll find. Best of all, 72 ready-to-use recipes provide tasty,
nutritious, and manageable alternatives to traditional institutional foods.
Learn to do more than just keep your residents' bodies alive - keep them living with
respectful, meaningful mealtimes made possible with Bon Appetit!
Recommendations
"The [book's] vision, concrete plans, practical ideas and recipes given are excellent.
There is much more to dining than food and this book will open your mind to the best of
the more."
- Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly
"If our overriding goal is to help residents have a pleasant dining experience that
begins with appealing food, these recipes are hard to argue with."
- Alzheimer's Care Quarterly
"Bon Appetit! provoked good culinary thinking... This book will be of great value to the
entire chain of command of a dining services department in a long-term care facility. The
most seasoned Chef, Production Managers, or Dining Services Managers will gain practical
ideas, and will find different ways to make good meals great meals."
- Contemporary Gerontology
