Assisted living facilities in Bonita Springs, FL, represent a relatively new and rapidly growing life-care option for older adults that have the potential to improve quality of life in numerous areas, including diet and nutrition. Indeed, eating a well-balanced diet is essential across all ages; however, as your body matures, it becomes increasingly important to meet your nutritional needs. Eating a balanced diet helps to keep you healthy and energized and can reduce the risk of diet-related diseases and chronic health conditions. Here are five ways our assisted living facility in Bonita Springs, Fl, can help.
Access to a Variety of Food
Daily tasks such as grocery shopping, cooking, or cleaning the dishes may become too difficult to handle with age. This can lead to malnutrition and unhealthy eating habits. Similarly, many older adults cannot meet their nutritional needs due to difficulty chewing, medications, loss of mobility, emotional concerns, or other chronic health conditions. One of the numerous benefits of dining in our senior living community is having access to an extensive selection of nutritious meals. From starters to mains and then desserts, our dedicated culinary chefs ensure they are all carefully prepared to suit your palate and improve your nutrition intake. These meals are also available at different times of the day to ensure your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks are available at appropriate times.
Adds Social Value
If you find meal time boring or food uninteresting, sharing a meal with fellow residents or friends you have made can tremendously help improve your nutrition intake. Moreover, daily interactions are essential for older adults to maintain communication skills, a sharp mind, better memory, and cognitive function. If you cannot come out to dine, your meals can be phoned in for a room-service delivery order or takeout. There are also professionally trained team members that can help supervise your meal intake, ensuring your meal-time is enjoyable and stress-free.
Meals are Dietician Supervised
As an older adult, it’s important to prioritize both the quality and safety of meals you have, as it is essential in maintaining both physical and mental health and quality of life. At our assisted living community, all activities involved in making nutritious foods, from menu planning, ingredients sourcing, meal preparation, and eating schedule, are all supervised and monitored by a registered dietician or certified chef. They help to ensure all meals are nutritious, delectable in taste, prepared with the highest quality ingredients, and freshly made available at appropriate meal times. Together with our culinary chefs, our professional team members work together to ensure your dining experience is filled with sensations from the moment you sit to eat until you finish your meal.
Healthy Aging
Food and nutrition go a long way in keeping you hale and hearty as you age. If you’re looking for the best way to improve your nutrition intake, we are your best bet. We have a wide group of professional team members, from nurses to chefs, doctors, and caregivers, who work together to ensure our residents eat nutritious meals daily. Be assured we’ve got every aspect of your nutrition, diet, health, and well-being covered. Contact us today!
