Nutrition care workshops at Ouro Preto elderly people's home - MG: Implementation of good food practices in the training of nutrition students

Abstract

Long-stay institutions for the elderly (ILPIs) are reception places, designed to serve elderly people in situations of abandonment or neglect, with a degree of dependence on care. Nutrition Care Workshops are actions carried out as part of a larger project at Lar São Vicente de Paulo (LSVP), of the "Cia da Gente: Art, Health, Education and Society" Project, activities were carried out, integrating basic needs, mainly, food not supplied under adequate hygienic and sanitary conditions. The objective of our work was to report the training experience on good food handling practices based on the creation and implementation of standardized operating procedures (SOPs) for handlers who work in LSVP, through lectures, slide shows, videos and questions to resolve doubts. It was found that the conditions met 91% or more of the essential or dominant items, 70 to 90% of the essential items. The occurrences were <70% of essential items and <50% of necessary items. The results were positive, the training carried out was classified as excellent. It is estimated that the level of knowledge about good practices and SOPs increased ~90%. There will be continuity of the nutrition care workshop at LSVP, associated with the training of nutrition students at UFOP.