title: Improving nutrition in dementia through menu picture cards and cooking activities.
abstract: This article outlines an initiative to help service users at a day centre for people with dementia develop a keener interest in food and mealtimes. The simple changes have had a profound effect, not only on clients' interest in eating but also on their food and fluid intake.
authors.affiliation: Housing 21.
authors.forename: Les
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003296:Cooking; D003704:Dementia / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D008612:Menu Planning; D009752:Nutritional Status; D026684:Personal Autonomy