Dr Cherie Hugo
Concerning the Presenter:
Dr Cherie Hugo is an accredited practising dietitian with round 25 years of expertise consulting along with her staff of My Vitamin Clinic dietitians to group, healthcare centres, hospitals and aged care organisations throughout Australia. Dr Hugo based Lantern Alliance in 2013, a nationwide aged care collaboration and action-based analysis initiative based mostly at Bond College, targeted on enhancing older Australian’s high quality of life by the enjoyment of fine meals. In 2018, Dr Hugo accomplished her PhD analysis centred round quantifying the worth of diet in aged care. This analysis and nationwide {industry} engagement noticed Dr Hugo as a part of the Australian Aged Care High quality and Security Fee’s Nationwide Requirements Steerage Reference Group and presently because the Fee’s Meals, Vitamin and Eating Advisor. Previously 6 years Dr Hugo has translated the analysis into an industry-endorsed aged care meals, diet and mealtime expertise scores instrument, Epicure, and has demonstrated this throughout over 100 aged care properties. Epicure affords a approach for aged care properties to prioritise areas of want inside the aged care meals, diet and eating expertise and to map this throughout the Aged Care High quality Requirements. Epicure demonstrates how leveraging knowledge not solely transforms the culinary expertise in aged care however interprets to improved medical care and healthcare financial savings for suppliers and Australia’s healthcare system.
Concerning the Seminar:
Within the evolving panorama of aged care, Lantern Alliance presents an evidence-based method to good eating and mealtime enjoyment. This session shares examples of how leveraging knowledge not solely transforms the culinary expertise in aged care however interprets to improved medical care and healthcare financial savings.
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