Nutrition & Diet: Issues for People who have Learning Disabilities

... Nutrition & Diet: Issues for People who have Learning Disabilities A Learning Contract Steven Perks Group T September 1999 Advanced Diploma in Clinical Nursing Tutor: Andy Philpott The aim of this learning contract is to enhance my knowledge on the importance of a well balanced, varied and healthy diet among the people with whom I work. I will look at addressing what constitutes a good diet, which nutrients are important to us in terms of promoting health and wellbeing and specific issues, which may be associated with people who have learning disabilities. I will then hopefully come to some conclusions about the importance of promoting and supplying a healthy diet to the people with whom we work. I will conclude with an evaluation of the learning contract. The nutritional status of people is seen as of particular importance in the field of nursing, not only in the physical sense of health, but as LeMay

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