Usually the problem is just to get residents to eat. Residents on restrictive diets tend to be unhappy more frequently do not comply with their diets. In addition, state and federal surveyors tend to scrutinize therapeutic diets very closely. Further, they set up the facility for survey citations. The bottom line is, residents are unhappy or non-compliant with their therapeutic diets and this can result in weight loss.
Residents are happier with fewer dietary restrictions.
Although there are liberalized diabetic diets, these differences on the tray can result in a decreased quality of life and food complaints. The DON should work with the physician and the dietitian to keep the residents happier with less restrictive diets. The most common deadly duo is Lanoxin and Lasix. Overly restrictive diets and drugs are costly, make residents unhappy, and both may result in weight loss. Muscles for eating are the same as the muscles used for speech.