Other winners on the night included Neel Radia, chair of the National Association of Care Catering, who took home the Public Sector Award.
The acquisition will expand Sodexo’s position in the UK private care home market.
At the start of the day, guests were given a pair of glasses to replicate visual impairments common among elderly people and welcomed into a drab dining room.
This introduction of this support follows on from the roll out of the company’s Dignified Dining toolkit last year with the Alzheimer’s Society, which aimed to provide patients with tailored nutrit
The research of 2,000 people aged between 30 and 71 with elderly parents, conducted by apetito and OnePoll, discovered 79% said their parents had not discussed malnutrition with their GP.
As a sponsor of Nutrition & Hydration Week, Tetley will host an afternoon tea event at The Hawthorns Care Home for residents with head chef and NACC Care Cook of the Year finalist, Martin McKee
The recently appointed Welsh Chair said that although great strides have been made in care catering, events like Nutrition and Hydration Week (13th-19th) help highlight that more needs to be done t
The contract caterer is under the joint managing directorship of sisters Kate Bendall and Louise Laver, daughters of John Herring who founded Connect in 1989.
The couple, from Ruddlan in North Wales, give regular talks on what it’s like to live with dementia and have featured in television programmes such as BBC Panorama.
Grace Muriel House has been awarded a new KitchenAid, having been picked out from 20 winning entries.