District 18 News
Written by: Lu Nuojun
2021-06-14 08:00
Last update date: 2021-06-14 08:00
Today (14th) is the Dragon Boat Festival, but it is not easy for patients and their families who have difficulty swallowing to celebrate the festival.
Many elderly people may choke and cause accidents when swallowing due to the decline of their physical functions. Therefore, they have to eat poorly-selling "paste" for many years. The epidemic has lasted for a long time, and the patients in the hospital have not been in contact with each other for a long time. Meeting family members and having a bite of Dragon Boat Festival with them for the festival, these scenes may have become reminiscences.
A few days ago, an organization held a soft meal making class to teach the family members how to make ingredients such as Qi scallop, pork, egg yolk, but with a mousse-like texture. I hope that residents with swallowing difficulties can also safely While eating the Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, we will enjoy the festive taste with the family in video format.
"Eat so fast..." and "Look at the spirit today". Looking at the appearance of the soft rice dumplings, they are roughly the same as ordinary rice dumplings. After they are steamed, the aroma of the rice dumplings leaves bursts. No wonder On the other side of the screen, Mr. Qiu, who was in the courtyard, also ate with gusto, and Mrs. Qiu didn't expect to smile.
Qiu Tai pointed out that since her husband moved into the home half a year ago, visits were not allowed during the epidemic. The couple had not met each other in half a year. The staff only arranged a video meeting every two weeks, and each time was only about ten minutes, Mrs. Qiu Said that in the past, Chaozhou rice dumplings were packaged every year, and some more "drinking" food was brought to the home for the husband to eat. Remember to come back...Usually, he has to eat two glutinous rice cakes, so he will have a good time eating first."
The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Nursing Home Outreach Professional Service Pilot Project (Kowloon Central) and the Hong Kong and China Gas Co., Ltd. recently held a "Chan" with Your Heart-Soft Meal Classroom Activity for the Elderly. A group of family members and volunteers in the kitchen I learned the skills of making soft meals. In addition to replacing glutinous rice with white rice, food shaping powder was also added. After the process of battering, moulding and wrapping, a rice dumpling that is just like a fake replacement has been formed. .
I sigh that every meal in the yard is "vegetable and meat". I'm full but unhappy
Mrs. Liu, who is also a family member of a person with dysphagia, said that her husband has suffered from dementia in recent years and turned upside down day and night. At the end of 2019, he finally decided to let her husband live in the home. "He slowly began to not be able to walk on his own, and he had to take a wheelchair...The food is coughing, and the food is like a small road food. Liu Tai pointed out that in the hospital, every meal is "vegetable and meat", but he thinks that although the husband is full, he "will not be happy."
She, who has never packaged rice dumplings in the past, thinks that it is not difficult to make soft rice dumplings. "After learning soft meals, I will go back and try them. You will be happy when you see that he eats happily." After the event, Mrs. Liu, I took the soft rice dumplings to visit my husband in person.
(From left) Mrs. Qiu, speech therapist Dr. Tang Disheng, Mrs. Lau, and Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui's Outreach Professional Services Pilot Program for Elderly Homes (Kowloon Central) Service Director Chen Meiyue
(Photo by Lu Nuojun)
Speech therapist: soft meals help slow down patient regression
Speech therapist Dr. Tang Disheng pointed out that in many cases, the homes provide very little food, which is difficult to meet the real needs of each residents. Many family members will bring food to the homes to visit the residents, but this is due to the recognition of dysphagia Not much, sometimes it may be dangerous. "Many people think that dysphagia is the same as gnawing food, but in fact it matters from the mouth to the throat to the stomach. The whole food is not enough."
For example, winter melon, because of its moisture, he has seen residents "choking" after biting, and it is harder for family members to know the changes in the degree of swallowing of residents because they cannot visit for a long time during the epidemic.
"The ideal thing is that the homes have soft meals every day. Although a good picture is far away, there are some homes that are very careful. They will make soft meals on holidays." Tang pointed out that soft meals can reduce the risk of swallowing. People with cognitive impairment can remind memory and slow down degradation when they see the original food. They also have better nutritional intake. I hope the government can promote it.
Chen Meiyue, Service Director of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Nursing Home Outreach Professional Services Pilot Program (Kowloon Central), also said that one or two of the service targets in Chengdu need soft meals, and that government funding may be extended to private homes for the elderly. And non-funding units.
She said frankly that it is not easy to make soft meals in hospitals. Speaking therapy is also a relatively new category in elderly services, and it takes time and process to promote. Therefore, she also hopes that through this event, family members can be brought to the community after being exposed to soft meal technology. .
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