Food And Dementia

EDM number 881 in 1999-00, proposed by Howard Stoate on 21/06/2000.

That this House notes the publication of the Alzheimer's Society report Food for Thought which marks Alzheimer's Awareness Week, 2nd to 8th July; recognises the problems people with dementia face getting an adequate and nutritious diet in care homes, hospitals and in their own homes; and calls for greater support and advice for carers of people with dementia on eating and diet, increased dementia training for health and social care staff in care homes and the NHS and improved standards of food provision in all care settings.

This motion has been signed by a total of 116 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.