ADL Eating and Dementia Home Care Path

This is a senior care plan for an individual with dementia as relates to the ability to feed themselves. The senior has a cognitive deficit that makes creating a grocery list, going in to the store and picking out the food items on the list, getting the food items in appropriate home storage, assembling food items for meal preparation, cooking the food properly, serving the food on clean dining dishes, consuming the food, storing extra food, doing the dishes in a sanitary manner, impossible. The senior needs the assist of another person to eat daily.

Concern : Altered nutrition, less than body requirements, related to inability to procure food.

Cause: Diagnosis of dementia, alzheimer's disease, cognitive deficit.

Evidence: Loss of body weight, reduced daily food and fluid intake, limited amount of food in refridgerator-freezer, presence of expired foods, senior does not leave residence, limited or no garbage refuse.

Intervention: With a diagnosis of dementia, alzheimer's disease,chronic cognitive deficit, the disease process is progressive indicating the person will not begin to do better. Teaching a person with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, or chronic cognitive deficit is not proven to be effective. The senior typically needs the assist of another to meet their daily nutritional and hydration needs.

Senior care worker can assist the elder with meals in the home.
1. Create a grocery list from seniors likes, dislikes in food and fluid.
2. Go to the grocery store, choosing economically appropriate foods on shelves.
3. Transport the purchased food to the seniors home for storage in regridgeration, freezer, cupboard shelves.
4. Assemble the food's needed for preparing a meal.
5. Properly cook the meal.
6. Serving the food in clean dining dishes.
7. Assisting the senior with reminders, and cues to completely eat the served food.
8. Store any extra prepared food in the refridgerator in sanitary containers.
9. Cleanse the dishes, dry them thoroughly, and store them in cupboard.

This is a simple plan that focuses on the activity of daily living eating for person who has memory difficulty. Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com assists seniors in South Central Wisconsin with non-medical in home custodial tasks.