Nutrition & Hydration Week 2023

Bluebird Care Coventry is supporting Nutrition & Hydration Week 2023.

Bluebird Care is supporting Nutrition & Hydration week, which runs from 13^th March to 19^th March 2023. Nutrition and Hydration Week has taken place every March since 2012.

Nutrition & Hydration week is an annual event with a shared objective to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally, and globally.

At Bluebird Care we encourage good nutrition and hydration with our customers and care teams daily. We take part in promoting this campaign to help raise awareness of good nutrition & hydration as well as promote the importance of maintaining healthy eating within our local area.

Nutrition and Hydration Week’s mission is…

"To create a global movement that will focus energy, activity and engagement on nutrition and hydration as a fundamental element of maintaining the health and well-being for our global community."

Nutrition & Hydration Week keenly promotes the following:

• The 10 Key Characteristics for Good Nutritional Care
• Protected Mealtimes
• Nutrition Advocates for each health or social care setting
• The minimum standards for good nutrition in the respective settings
• Highlighting Good Nutrition and Hydration Practices
• Continued Education for professionals on good nutrition and hydration.

With around 3 million people at risk of malnutrition in the UK and over 25 million in the G8 countries we need to engage opportunities to raise the awareness of the risks and promote the good practices that can help prevent malnutrition and dehydration. Preventing malnutrition and dehydration improves health and well-being and helps to reduce the burden on the health and social care services in treating and supporting those suffering from under nutrition and dehydration.

Bluebird Care is a leading, award-winning provider of home and live in care, specialising in working with customers who live with dementia, physical disabilities and many other acute and chronic conditions. Bluebird Care work alongside their customers’ families, social services and the NHS to ensure each person receives the care they need.

For more information on Nutrition and Hydration week or for ideas on how to get involved please visit the campaign website: https://nutritionandhydrationweek.co.uk/