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Author: 01 Medical Office
2019-11-29 08:00
Last updated: 2019-11-29 08:00As the so-called common people take food as their natural condiment, in addition to satisfying the abdomen, gourmet food can also bring happiness. However, with the increase of age, many elderly people begin to deteriorate their taste sensation and decline their swallowing ability. The range of food choices suitable for the elderly has become narrower and narrower. Often when the safety considerations are accommodated, the "color and aroma" of the food are sacrificed. Enjoying delicious cuisine has also become a living for fullness.
Some elders with stroke, Parkinson's disease, and cognitive impairment (middle to late) have difficulty eating or swallowing. They can only eat foods that are soft or mushy. But because of the style, appearance and taste of mushy food, most of them are tedious. Elders or the patients mentioned above see the food they eat with great interest. When they think about the blessings that they have enjoyed, they often feel that they are not tasteful. Loss of appetite and loss of dignity.
Written by: Christian Spirits Association ED Project (Eating in Dignity)
Tong Jialiang, general manager of Lingshi Chuangyi Center and social enterprise service operation in hospital
Soft rice cakes are very similar to real rice cakes. (Courtesy of Spiritual Society)
Daughter: Dad thinks that the family is eating on the same table, and only his food is to be crushed and processed, and selling similar children's paste, making him feel shame.
Mother-in-law Wang: "I have already done a lot of things in Zhongfeng, and my family has eaten even the food I want. I really use it!"
Just like the two people mentioned above, it is not necessary to enjoy the deliciousness of the world. Some elderly people and long-term patients are indeed affected by diseases and other factors. It is also as simple as chewing food.
Therefore, if you can provide high-quality soft meals for people who have difficulty eating or swallowing, it can bring them all the enjoyment of color and fragrance, while maintaining the flavor of the food, and returning the pasty food to the original food shape. Regain the pleasure of eating. Recently, a new soft meal technology has appeared in the workshop to make special dishes for people who have difficulty eating or swallowing, so that those who fail to eat due to illness can still have "dignity of eating well."
This soft meal technology originates from Japan. The advantage is that the coagulation powder uses a new coagulation ingredient, which improves the problem of traditional coagulation powder when it dissolves in saliva, greatly improves the safety of some patients when swallowing, and the style also takes into account the elderly in Hong Kong. According to your eating habits and tastes, you can mix the right ingredients to make dishes that look delicate, taste delicious, and are easy to chew and swallow.
The cooking method is relatively simple, and the original taste of the food, the taste of the cooking sauce and the ingredients can be preserved, and the selling can be close to the general. For example, the social enterprise team that cited this technology earlier took advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Made egg yolk milk moon cake soft meal for the elderly to taste, the appearance is almost the same as a mini milk yellow moon cake, no matter the appearance and taste, it can better evoke the elderly's desire to eat, regain the passion and enjoyment of eating Elderly people and their carers who have difficulty eating can have more choices in meal arrangements.
The team is convinced that the bloom of each life should not be restricted by disease and age. Respecting the elderly's thirst for food and choice is also the team's practice of respecting life, so that they have the "dignity of eating well".
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