The care industry, whether in residential or community based settings, is massively successful at designing and preparing superb meals for the people that they support, but we still experience major challenges when encouraging people to eat and drink enough.

The newly launched D.I.E.T course transports delegates on a journey into what the world may be like for people living with dementia, and allows them to experience first-hand the challenges that are faced in this important and sometimes taken for granted area.

As part of this 6-hour course, delegates will experience a variety of sensory and physical barriers that may be experienced by people living with dementia, and feel how this may impact upon people’s dining experiences. Delegates will also have the chance to try for themselves the latest adaptive equipment, understand how to dress dining tables, design menus, effectively use colour spectrums and so much more.

But what makes this course different? Simply put, having the opportunity to truly understand, first-hand, the barriers that we unintentionally put in place around dining for dementia, is something that will stay with delegates forever.  Promoting a positive dining experience through new knowledge will improve the lives of both staff and the people that we support and will change the dementia landscape forever.

To book please email quality.innovation@essex.gov.uk