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Why Care Homes Must Get IDDSI Compliance Right - Special Podcast With apetito

Care Home Management Season 7 Episode 12

In a special podcast, Care Home Management magazine editor Ailsa Colquhoun talks to specialist food service provider apetito about how care homes can comply with the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI). 

The guests are apetito’s senior dietitian Rachel Sipaul and speech and language therapist and founder of Speakmore, Tracy Broadley Jackson.

The panel discusses:

  • What exactly is Dysphagia and who is affected?
  • Why care homes must be aware of IDDSI
  • How IDDSI helps providers and residents
  • The potential risks if care homes do not comply with the framework
  • How to involve a resident's family
  • The difficulties care homes face trying to comply
  • The importance of training and raising awareness internally.

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Podcast kindly sponsored by Hendrix Training - providing actors to support care home in-house training and for training films. 


 

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