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Helping You To Transform Your Mealtime Experience For People You Support Living With Dementia

‘Made With Love’ Culture-Changing Mealtime Video

Invest in my beautiful short film to win the hearts and minds of your whole team.

Please read more below.

Speaking & Workshops For Your Events

Looking for a heart-warming and educational speaker for your conference or event? Whether you want tears or laughter, education or inspiration, I can deliver.

Please read more below.

Managers’ Onboarding Session

An eye-opening introductory session designed to highlight current issues and unite managers in believing change is possible.

Please read more below.

Dementia Dining Consulting Day

For any struggling setting wanting to revolutionise mealtimes and improve the lives of people with dementia in their care.

Please read more below.

Dementia Enabling Dining Environment Audit

Hold a magnifying glass up to your dining environment and learn what might be affecting the people in your care.

Please read more below.

Personalised Independent Mealtime Care Plans

Support the people in your care to overcome eating difficulties and enjoy a dignified dining experience.

Please read more below.

Dementia Mealtime Challenge Interactive Training Workshop

Educate your teams to deliver a 5-star dementia-focused dining experience.

Please read more below.

Progress Visits

Review your progress following your Mealtime Audit and training sessions with a Progress Visit with me, typically carried out 3 and 6 months after our first meeting.

Please read more below.

Bespoke Mealtime Consultancy Projects

Do you require assistance in overcoming specific mealtime challenges and achieving desired outcomes?

Please read more below.

Small Changes Can Reap Big Rewards

People living with dementia often have problems eating, and malnutrition can lead to a whole host of secondary problems.

To stop your ladies and gents wasting away in front of you, they need help to enjoy mealtimes again. Understanding the complex interactions that people who have dementia experience with the eating environment, and tweaking the foods that are presented and the environment itself, can be transformational.

I can help you to improve the mealtime experience for the people you care for, transforming their relationship with food and helping them to eat well again.

What I Provide

‘Made With Love’ Culture-Changing Mealtime Video

Invest in my beautiful short film to win the hearts and minds of your whole team.

My ‘go-to’ training video will turn your teams’ perception of dementia-friendly dining on its head. They’ll laugh and they’ll cry, and they’ll be onboard and ready for change by the end of it.

Make an emotional impact
Change your teams’ perception of mealtimes
Develop a greater understanding of dementia-friendly dining
Unite your teams in wanting to do better

Engage your teams so they’re ready to assist your ladies and gents in enjoying dignified mealtimes.

Made with Love Trailer

Video

An exclusive 1 minute preview of my heart warming and highly acclaimed short film Made with Love, highlighting the importance of inclusivity, socialisation, person centred care and dignity at mealtimes.

Speaking & Workshops For Your Events

Looking for a heartwarming and educational speaker for your conference or event? Whether you want tears or laughter, education or inspiration, I can deliver.

Through sharing the very powerful and emotional story of my personal journey with my mum, who lived at home with vascular dementia, I can provide your audience with a real insight into how to really help the ladies and gents in their care by making mealtimes more enjoyable.

I’ll also share my short film, Made with Love, which has been globally claimed as the ‘go to’ industry catalyst for change, transforming mealtime experiences from a task-oriented job to a social occasion and the importance of that.

This is not your usual dry and dull presentation. There will be tears and laughter, sharing and caring. And most of all, emotional connection and inspiration as I share and inspire a passion for making mealtimes dignified.

People tell me they love my talks because they are real. It’s a real story - and it’s not a PowerPoint presentation! I have real-life experience with what they’re dealing with, so I understand. I’ve walked a mile in their shoes and they connect with that. They connect with the stories that I tell, and they share their stories with me.

Managers’ Onboarding Session

An eye-opening introductory session designed to highlight current issues and unite managers in believing change is possible.

Invite me into your setting for an initial 2-hour presentation and facilitated workshop for your management team that will:

Encourage honest conversations within the team
Benchmark the current challenges
Demonstrate what’s possible through my short film ‘Made With Love’
Establish management buy-in and a commitment to rebooting your dining experience project.

Kickstart your dementia dining experience project with commitment from the full team.

£500 plus travel expenses per session

Dementia Dining Consulting Day

For any struggling setting wanting to revolutionise mealtimes and improve the lives of people with dementia in their care.

Invite me into your setting for 10 hours of listening ears and focused observation. Experiencing a full day of mealtimes and chatting with staff members and the people you support means I can benchmark where you are right now and work on a plan to improve things across the board.

When you book me in for a Dementia Dining Consulting Day, you get:

15 hours of my professional, undivided attention
Objective, supportive feedback that isn’t heavily critical
A comprehensive 50-point dementia-specific mealtime audit checklist & Unique and detailed follow up report and action plan that focuses on the quality of the dining environment and atmosphere, food and meals, person-centred care, staff skills and knowledge and dignity at mealtimes
A unique and detailed follow-up report and action plan, delivered in person on Zoom, for easy implementation and a clear strategy for improvement

Get the ball rolling by bringing me in for a day. With a fresh pair of eyes and an open heart, I’ll tell you exactly how to transform mealtimes for your ladies and gents.

£1,500 plus travel expenses

Dementia Enabling Dining Environment Audit

Hold a magnifying glass up to your dining environment and learn what might be affecting the people in your care.

Your dining environments could be negatively affecting the mealtime experience for the people you support living with dementia. Getting people with dementia to eat can be challenging, and small changes to the eating environment can make a huge difference in their interactions with their food.

When you opt for a Dementia Enabling Dining Environment Audit, you’ll also receive a detailed, personalised follow-up report and action plan so that you can learn how to adapt your dining environments to be more dementia-friendly.

£750 plus travel expenses

Personalised Independent Mealtime Care Plans

Support the people in your care to overcome eating difficulties and enjoy a dignified dining experience.

By working with your team to create personalised mealtime care plans for the people you support, your ladies and gents can start to:

Overcome tricky mealtime behaviours
Become more independent at mealtimes
Begin to enjoy eating again
Become less at risk of malnutrition
Live a better quality of life

£100 per care plan

Dementia Mealtime Challenge Interactive Training Workshop

Educate your teams to deliver a 5-star dementia-focused dining experience.

Take up to 12 members of your team, from kitchen staff to management, through the experience of my two-hour dementia mealtime challenge workshop and radically improve their understanding of the complexities that come with dementia care and the eating environment.

Participants will get to grips with learning outcomes such as:

The common causes of weight loss in dementia
Ways to reduce the risks of weight loss in dementia
How the dining environment can impact nutrition levels and what you can do about it
How to minimise changes in sensory function as people age
Managing dysphagia
The importance of meal presentation
Overcoming motor difficulties to help maintain independence at mealtimes
The care home bedroom mealtime experience
Encouraging independence at mealtimes
Best practice for assisting people at mealtimes
The importance of team and resident engagement at mealtimes
The importance of good oral care to prevent malnutrition

After this workshop, your staff will understand how they can move forward in making mealtimes person-centred, respectful and dignified for the people in your care.

Looking for something most suited to the needs of your setting? Go for the Bespoke Workshop option if you’ve already been through a Mealtime Audit and want a personalised workshop experience based on your audit results and designed to enhance improvements.

Standard Workshop

£500 plus travel expenses for up to 12 people

Bespoke Workshop

£850 plus travel expenses for a personalised workshop based on your Mealtime Audit results designed to enhance improvements

Workshop Testimonials

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'Jo's workshop was delivered with energy and enthusiasm.'

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'Well structured, very informative workshop'

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‘Jo's personal experience with her mum was great & brought issues to life'

Progress Visits

Review your progress following your Mealtime Audit and training sessions with a Progress Visit with me, typically carried out 3 and 6 months after our first meeting.

During this in-person revisit, you can expect to:

Have a good chat about how you feel it’s going
Measure your performance against any targets we set
Celebrate your successes
Discuss any challenges you’re facing
Reflect on how to maintain the standards you’ve achieved
Review any additional support you feel you need to move forward

Day rate - £1,000 plus travel expenses.

Bespoke Mealtime Consultancy Projects

Do you require assistance in overcoming specific mealtime challenges and achieving desired outcomes?

Engage me in your bespoke mealtime consultancy project. From strategy design for continuously improving your dining experience based on your individual needs, to planning a rigorous implementation programme to get you where you want to be, I’ll be with you every step of the way.

£1,000 plus travel expenses per day

Ready To Make Mealtimes Easy Again?

Stop watching the people you care for waste away. Change is on the horizon, and I can help you get there.

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