Menus, diets and hydration

Building a menu

  1. In the Meals app → Menus, create the menu for the day or the week.

  2. Add dishes from the catalog, by meal type (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks).

  3. Save.

Menu form: the date, the meal type and the Dishes tab listing each dish with its category

Dishes are described once in the catalog (ingredients, category) and reused across all menus.

Meal services

A meal service represents a meal served at a given time. It follows a simple cycle: Confirm → Mark as served, with the option to cancel or reset to draft.

Menus list: one row per date and meal type, with the Draft, Confirmed or Served status

Diets and allergies

Each resident can have one or more diets (salt-free, diabetic, blended/adapted texture…) and allergies. Resthome takes them into account and flags incompatibilities between a menu and a resident’s profile.

Dietary alerts

The Dietary alerts menu surfaces cases where a planned dish does not suit a resident’s diet or allergies — to be checked before service.

Dietary alerts: one row per incompatibility, with the sector, the room, the resident, the diets involved and where the meal is served

Nutritional monitoring and hydration

  • Resthome tracks residents’ nutritional coverage (energy, protein) and hydration, with tailored targets.

  • Malnutrition screening relies on the MNA (see Clinical registers).

  • Hydration is logged throughout the day to spot insufficient intake.

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