Alberta continuing care & supportive living

Menu standards self-check

Up to ten questions about your home’s food and nutrition records, filtered to your licence class. Each “no” links to what the standard says and what can close the gap.

Nothing you answer here is sent anywhere.

Your home

Licence class

9 questions for your home

1. Is your menu cycle at least three weeks long, and planned against Canada’s Food Guide (2007)? (Type A 12(2); type B and supportive living 13(1))
2. Has the current cycle been reviewed and approved, and do you hold the signed approval? (Type A 12(3); type B and supportive living 13(2))
3. Does every meal offer a choice from within at least one food group? (Type A 13; type B and supportive living 14)
4. Does the menu offer variety and change with the seasons? (Type A 13; type B and supportive living 14)
5. Is each day’s menu posted in a public place before the first meal? (Type A 12(2))
6. Have you collected residents’ opinions on meals, fluids and snacks in the last six months? (Type A 13(3); type B and supportive living 14(3))
7. In the last six months, have you consulted residents about when meals, fluids and snacks are provided? (Type A 13(4); type B and supportive living 14(4))
8. Are substitutions made from the same food group, at similar nutritional value, and communicated to residents? (Type A 13; type B and supportive living 14(2))
9. Have health care aides and volunteers who help residents eat been trained in eating assistance and choking response, within six months of hire and in the last two years? (Health service standard 9.2)

Where your answers point

Answer the questions above to see where your records stand.

This counts your own answers. It is not an assessment and does not establish that a home meets any standard, which only Alberta’s inspectors decide. The questions cover food and nutrition provisions only.

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