Dietetics
Everybody needs good nutrition to enhance health and wellbeing.
Dietitians have the specialist knowledge of nutrition and health throughout all stages of life.
Our dietitians provide services through:
- Connolly Rehabilitation
- Geroe Acute
- Community Rehabilitation Centre.
Dietitians services may include:
- assessment
- education
- dietary counselling
- oral nutritional supplementation
- enteral nutrition (tube feeding).
Our dietitians also see outpatients with:
- chronic disease (including diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol)
- weight management issues
- malnutrition
- gastrointestinal issues
- food allergies
- eating disorders
- nutrition for pregnancy and lactation
- sports performance and
- paediatrics (including fussy eating and other feeding difficulties, obesity, allergies and intolerances)
Our dietitians also work across:
- dietetic management of residents in low and high residential aged care, for those in respite or in the transitional care program (TCP)
- outreach to Maldon Hospital’s low and high residential care
- leading nutrition sessions for the cardiac rehabilitation, better balance and pain management groups
- regular nutrition analysis and review of the menu and meals provided to ensure they meet the recommended nutrition standards.
More information
Contact the CRC to find out more about our Dietetics services.