Patient information leaflets and related links

• Macmillan Cancer Support

• Eating well for your lungs
• Improving Your Nutrition in COPD
• Nutrition Support in COPD

Most people living with a dementia need to follow general healthy eating advice. You will find leaflets about this under the category ‘healthy eating’ which can be found below.

We also recommend that people living with dementia take a supplement of vitamin D. You can find out more about vitamin D here https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/vitamin-d.html

Some people can experience problems with eating and drinking. These local leaflets provide information to help:

• Someone who is losing weight unintentionally.
• Someone who prefers eating with their fingers rather than cutlery
• Someone who is experiencing taste changes

If you are concerned about unplanned weight loss, you can check if this is a cause of concern by completing this self-screening tool: https://www.malnutritionselfscreening.org/

You can also find out more information about food and dementia from these national sites:

• Dementia UK: https://www.dementiauk.org/get-support/maintaining-health-in-dementia/eating-and-drinking/
• Alzheimer’s society: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-support/daily-living/eating-drinking

You can obtain more information about local services for people living with a dementia at: https://dementia.warwickshire.gov.uk/

• Dietary Advice for Gestational Diabetes
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes
• DESMOND
• Diabetes UK
• Dietary advice for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
• Hypoglycaemia
• The Glycaemic Index
• Carbohydrate Counting

• BDA Food Facts: Food Allergies and Intolerances
• BDA Food Facts: Food Allergy and Intolerance Testing
• BDA Food Facts: Milk Allergy
• BDA Food Facts: Pollen Food Syndrome
• Allergy UK
• Anaphylaxis Campaign

• BDA Food Facts
• NHS Choices

• Be well in pregnancy
• Change4Life
• Consensus Action on Salt
• Food Standards Agency
• Getting the balance right as a vegan
• Guide to Healthy Eating
• Guide To Healthy Eating For Vegetarians
• Hydration matters
• NHS Choices: Healthy Eating

If you have been losing weight unintentionally, the BAPEN self-screening tool will help identify if you are at risk of becoming malnourished.

• BAPEN Malnutrition self-screening tool

The following leaflets provide simple suggestions to help stop further weight loss:

• Make your diet more nourishing
  
• Make your diet more nourishing the healthier way (for patients with a history of heart disease or diabetes)
• How to look after your teeth on a high sugar diet
• Nourishing Snacks
• Nourishing Drinks
• Nourishing Meals
• Now your appetite has improved
• Recipes for Nourishing snacks and drinks
  

If you are struggling to get to the shops for food, the following leaflet may help. You may also wish to consider purchasing meals from one of the providers below:

• Store cupboard ideas
• Oakhouse foods
• Wiltshire Farm Foods

For more information about malnutrition, the following may be of interest:

• British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN)

• BDA Weightwise
• Public Health England Obesity
• National Obesity Forum
• BDA Food Facts: Weight Loss

• Eating for Health partners
  • Warwickshire County Council
    • Trading Standards
    • School Meals
  • Warwick District Council
    • Food Safety
  • Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council
  • North Warwickshire Borough Council
  • Rugby Borough Council
  • Stratford-on-Avon District Council
• UK physical activity guidelines
• Start active, stay active
  
  

• A guide to healthy eating for people with gallstones
• Coeliac UK
• Core Charity, Digestive disorders
• Dietary advice for reflux

• British Heart Foundation

• Healthy Eating
• Healthy shopping and menu planning
• Ideas to Prevent Overeating in Autistic Spectrum Disorder

• Sources of calcium - Non-Dairy
• How to increase your iron intake