Mealtime Experience

GGC - Nutrition in Care Homes
NHS GGC

NHSGGC Community Speech and Language Therapy Team - Safer Swallowing Advice video

NHSGGC - General Safer Swallowing Advice: how to assist someone to eat and drink (youtube.com) Duration 7min 35s

BDA menu planning and food service guidelines

Care Home Digest - British Dietetic Association (BDA)

The guidelines provide information and tools that all care home staff can use to help understand how to ensure that menus meet residents’ nutritional needs, together with guidance about how food service delivery can both enhance mealtime experience for residents and support them to meet their nutritional needs.

Mealtime experience training video

Link to 10 minute training video for mealtime experience. The 'Mealtime Standards at Runwood Homes Senior Living' video has been shared with kind permission from Runwood Homes, Paul Gaskell Director of Wellbeing and Dementia Services.

Editorial Information

Last reviewed: 04/11/2025

Next review date: 31/10/2026

Author(s): Advanced Practice Care Home Dietitian, Care Home Dietitians.

Version: Version 1

Author email(s): ggc.carehomedieteticteam@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.

Approved By: Care Home Dietetic Team; Food Fluid and Nutrition Care Homes Work Stream group

Reviewer name(s): Gillian Mackay, Vik Hilton.