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This course is designed to equip learners with an understanding of the unique nutritional needs of older people. It will explore how to effectively link nutritional requirements to food and fluid provision, ensuring optimal health and well-being and address the most common nutritional challenges faced by older people. It will offer actionable strategies to overcome these barriers, empowering learners to make a meaningful impact on the lives of older people.
As people age, a range of physiological, health and social factors make them significantly more vulnerable to malnutrition and dehydration. For example:
The consequences of poor nutrition and hydration are serious: increased falls and fractures, infections, slower recovery, loss of muscle and bone mass, frailty, reduced function - and even increased mortality.
So, ensuring older people have adequate nutrition and hydration is not a “nice to have.” It is fundamental to dignity, independence, quality of life and health outcomes.
Kineo Courses offer three courses on this topic:
These courses equip aged-care workers with practical, evidence-aligned skills to identify and manage malnutrition and dehydration, apply the IDDSI framework safely, and deliver person-centred nutrition and hydration that supports dignity and better outcomes.
This is especially important now, as the sector transitions to the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards. In particular, Standard 6 - Food and Nutrition – which sets clear expectations to ensure older people receive nutritious, appealing and safe food and drink, along with meaningful dining experiences. For the workforce, this means every person involved in meals, fluids, texture-modified diets, swallowing support, or dining environments, needs up-to-date knowledge, confidence and capability embedded in everyday practice.
In short, engaging with these courses helps organisations:
This particular course provides an understanding of:
