Catering & Residents' Wellbeing - a podcast special from Care Home Management

Our series of COVID-19 special podcast roundtables continues with a look at Catering & Residents' Wellbeing, exploring how care homes are coping during the pandemic and how they are boosting wellbeing as the crises eases.

The podcast is hosted by Care Home Management's publishing editor Steve Hemsley and sponsored by care home marketing experts Smooth Digital - 'Helping fill care and nursing home beds with private paying residents'.

On the podcast our expert panel discuss:

* The role of food and nutrition during and after the lockdown
* The importance of keeping residents active at this time
* The link between meal times and activities and ensuring they work together
* The impact of food and activities on residents' mental health
* Meeting the Vitamin D challenge
* The reintroduction of social contact in care homes
* How meal times and activities have been adapted during periods of isolation
* Improving activities as we enter a new phase

On the panel are Neil Hargreaves, divisional manager for care homes at apetito UK; Sophie Murray, deputy chair at the National Association of Care Catering; Ian McCombes, Just Bowl co-ordinator for the Bowls Development Alliance; and Ben Allen, founder of Oomph Wellness.