Useful links around drinking and dehydration
Posters to download
Nutrition and Hydration week:
2013 Posters and 2014 Posters
Drink water: Posters
Water - tap into it: Posters
Water cycle poster (there is also a quiz version): Poster
Activities around hydration
Activity sheets
including word scrambles, fun water facts, word search - produced for
Nutrition Australia: Link
Test your knowledge quiz: Link
Nutrition and Hydration week: campaign handbook, and other resources
Toolkits for specific settings
Royal College of Nursing Hospital
Hydration Best Practice Toolkit: Link
Water for Healthy Ageing - Hydration Best Practice Toolkit
for Care Homes: Link
The Caroline Walker Trust - Eating well: supporting older people and older people with
Dementia. A practical guide. This is a superb resource on helping older people to eat well, and it is freely downloadable: Link
Assessments and awards
The Care Home Nutrition and
Hydration Award: Link
Care Quality Commission - Reports on Dignity and
nutrition for older people: Link
Information and advice
Practical information, and videos from the European Hydration Institute: Link
Hydration tips from Wateraid: Link
Fact sheets and tools from the Natural Hydration Council:
Link
NHS Choices on dehydration: Link
BBC Health on dehydration: Link
US National Library of Medicine on dehydration: Link
Wikipedia on dehydration: Link
Campaigns
Nutrition and Hydration Week, A taste of patient safety, including a worldwide Afternoon Tea on 19th March! 17th – 23rd March 2014: Link and Link
Dignity Action Day – Digni-Tea. A day on dignity for older people, also celebrated with a tea party! This will be on 1st February 2014. There are action packs and posters to download, a great way to show that your home cares about hydration and dignity. Link
Time for a Cuppa -
campaign week 1st - 8th March 2013 from Dementia UK: www.timeforacuppa.org
World water day, 22 March 2013 including lots of
supporting information and posters, as well as a super “water cycle”
poster to download, a calendar and logos to print onto t-shirts: Link
UK Coffee Week, 22-28 April 2013 raising money for
clean water projects in Tanzania: Link
Health on Tap - a campaign to promote good hydration
in older
people in residential care from Anglian Water: Link
Make a pledge on nutrition and hydration, get
a certificate: Link
Resources for care homes to use:
The National Association of Care Catering is a membership organisation with huge amounts of useful information, recipes, training, tip sheets and ideas. These are links to some of their resources: Link and Link.
Dignity in Care network, led by the National Dignity Council, Dignity Champions form part of a nationwide network of over 40,000 individuals and organisations who work to put dignity and respect at the heart of UK care services to enable a positive experience of care. Become a Dignity Champion, download their good practice guidelines and toolkit. Link
The British Association of Occupational Therapists and College of Occupational Therapists have produced a toolkit on helping residents keep active in care homes, called “Living well in care homes”. The toolkit is free online resource full of practical ideas of how to support care home residents to live their lives doing the day-to-day activities that are important to them. The toolkit promotes dignity and respect, mental and physical wellbeing and integration into the community. It includes free training materials and audit tools to review and evidence aspects of care such as personalisation and choice. Download the toolkit here: Link
The Principles and Clinical Practice of Nursing Home Care is a book on best practice for care homes (with free slides to download): Link
The Relatives and Residents Association produces lots of useful information (for example on care home inspection, being a relative of a resident, volunteers in care homes and much more, the keys to care tool and much more): Link
INTERACT – Interventions to reduce Acute Care Transfers provides tools and links (free) to help you reduce emergency hospital admissions in care home residents: Link
Aging in place – this is information on a programme of research carried out in the US, about how best to help older people stay in a care home despite health problems and increasing frailty, with an emphasis on health monitoring through new technology: AgingMO and Active Elders
