Dietary Specialism | White Oaks

Partnering with our catering solutions means that the nutritional aspect of your care is looked after by competent and compassionate hands.

Comprehensive catering solutions

It’s crucial in the senior living sector to ensure that the food and drink provided is enjoyable, contains nutritional value and contributes to an improved quality of life. For each of the sub-sectors we provide comprehensive catering solutions for, we tailor our menus to fulfil your specific dietary needs and requirements, ensuring that everyone is well-cared for.

Expert planning and research

Onsite culinary teams are issued with our chef’s ‘best friend’: The Source – a database of 15,000+ recipes, which are built containing full nutritional and allergen analysis, alongside providing the kitchen team with a costed shopping basket to reduce administration time.

Our Dignified Dining Toolkit was created in partnership with Alzheimer’s Disease International, based on research to help us understand the relationship between food and dementia. This is accompanied by specialist training supported by the Alzheimer’s Society, helping you create a clinically sound environment for person-centred care.

Dietary requirements are our priority.

We ensure that everyone is taken care of, no matter your nutritional needs. Our meticulous menu planning aims to cater to a wider range of specifications and can be further adapted if required to ensure everyone receives the same quality dining experience.

We cater to a wide range of needs, including:

Individuals living with dementia: there are many ways in which we can ensure people with dementia are cared for properly through nutrition. This may include finger food, texture modified and food fortification to enable them to receive the dietary value that they need whilst nurturing an enjoyable experience.

Texture-modified diets adhering to the IDSSI framework: senior living catering can be accompanied by challenges such as patients with difficulty swallowing, also known as dysphagia, progressive neurological disorders and immune system disorders. Our personalised solution ensures that even the textures of our meals can be customised to each resident’s needs.

Nutrient-dense and fortification: as a result of our hybrid combination of freshly prepared and pre-prepared meals, we can fortify our meals with nutrient-dense ingredients tailored to your organisation’s specific dietary requirements.

Supporting diabetes management: due to our fully customisable catering solutions, we can ensure that the appropriate amount of sugar is consumed for each individual, paying particular attention to those who have dietary requirements such as diabetes.

Partnering care homes with weight-loss and weight-gain solutions: our balanced diet solutions are tailored to each individual resident, taking into account their dietary needs and finding the areas for improvement that we need to target. Maintaining a balanced diet will ensure that weight loss or gain is possible and encourage health and wellbeing as a result.

Religious, ethnic, and cultural requirements: The role of food and drink is complex and varies across religious, ethnic and cultural communities. Our offering ensures robust processes to ensure that all residents’ needs are catered for and that they can feel joy in connecting with their culture through our food.

Vegetarian and vegan: this dietary specialism accommodates a lack of meat and animal products through a variety of higher protein and energy sources, such as beans, soya and tofu mince. It is still possible for both nutritionally well and nutritionally vulnerable patients who follow a vegetarian and vegan diet and still meet their daily nutrition targets.

Maintaining nutrition

Maintaining nourishment, hydration and a healthy weight are key areas of focus for care providers. We’re here to ease your load and support you in providing healthy diets and nutrition to your residents.
There are a range of foods that one must consume on a daily basis. Good nutrition helps wounds and damaged tissues heal faster, improves the body’s immune function, maintains muscle mass, and helps residents become as fit and healthy as they can be. Even if there have been no nutritional problems identified during our Food Profile Meetings, we cannot stress the importance of good nutrition by means of a healthy, well-balanced diet enough. We strive to reflect all dietary needs in our personalised menus, ensuring your residents are well-cared for and find joy in the food they consume.

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