"A full-fledged food is the basic condition for maintaining the health, well being and productivity of people in his young and old days" (Pape 1971: 286).
If the food supply until moving into a home run mainly by the recorded himself (especially women) who takes over this task from now on the home kitchen or their staff.
The home kitchen thus contributes a large part of the quality of life of residents. This is often underestimated. To best meet the needs of
residents, it requires friendly, flexible and above all Competent employees home.
This is the ultimate goal of "cooking therapists'
Preserving the quality of life of residents or even improve.
Through his actions around food is practiced with the residents thought training, social training and motor training. Accordingly, attention is paid to both the physical and the mental activation of the residents.
The concept of "cooking therapist enables a realization of the rights of people with existing financial resources.
aging can be prevented is not, but you can avoid that older people feel old and they make their retirement years as comfortable as possible.
the one in Brunswick, Schmitz-Scherzer, and other the empirical study, the following needs of the residents were reported as the most important (cf. Schmitz-Scherzer et al 1978. 47):
Respondents expressed the desire to nurture friendly
(33.6% of respondents).
good food (19.9% of respondents).
good spatial features (15.3% of respondents).
friendly atmosphere (12.2% of interviewees).
full acceptance (8.4% of interviewees).
enough leisure activities (6.1% of those interviewed).
contact details (3.1% of interviewees).
