The Importance of Nutrition and Hydration in Care – and How Care Control Supports You!

 

Nutrition and Hydration Week is a key reminder of how vital proper food and fluid intake is within health and social care. Ensuring clients and service users receive the right nutrition and hydration is essential for maintaining well-being, preventing malnutrition, and supporting overall health.

At Care Control, we understand the importance of accurate record-keeping in this area, which is why we’ve developed intuitive digital tools to help care providers effortlessly track food and fluid intake. Whether you’re managing care plans, ensuring compliance, or improving the accuracy of documentation, our system makes it simple, efficient, and effective.

 

Recording fluid intake – easy, interactive, and accurate

Tracking hydration is a crucial part of care planning. With Care Control’s fluid intake monitoring, carers can easily log fluid consumption using an interactive glass feature. This allows staff to visually mark fluid intake, ensuring precise recording and making the process much more user-friendly than traditional note-taking.

By improving accuracy and reducing the risk of dehydration, our fluid intake tool helps care teams stay on top of hydration levels across all service users.

 

 

Food intake monitoring – a smarter way to record meals

Care Control also offers an advanced food intake recording tool that ensures carers can accurately document meal consumption. Using an interactive slider system, carers can easily log how much food has been consumed in line with the service user’s dietary needs.

• Meal type flexibility – Select from breakfast, lunch, and dinner to ensure complete oversight of daily intake.
• Meal descriptions – Add extra notes for a detailed breakdown of what was consumed.
• MargoAI Integration – Our AI-powered tool can enhance and extend meal descriptions, ensuring that all care notes are comprehensive and reflective of actual intake.

 

Oversight at a glance – the food intake analysis dashboard

Managing food intake across multiple service users can be challenging. That’s why our system provides a dedicated food intake analysis dashboard, offering a clear oversight view of who has eaten and when. This ensures that staff can quickly see if a meal has been logged for each individual, helping identify any potential concerns and improve overall nutritional oversight.

 

 

Menu choice – empowering service users in their meal decisions

Offering choice is an important part of person-centred care. Care Control’s Menu Choice allows staff to easily log meal preferences for each service user, ensuring their dietary needs and preference are met.

• Easy selection of service users – quickly record meal choices for individuals.
• Customisable meal options – select meal types to align with dietary requirements.

With this functionality, care providers can ensure that service users have a say in their meals improving personalisation and overall well-being.

 

Why choose Care Control for Nutrition and Hydration Monitoring?

Our tools are designed to make care recording simpler, faster and more effective. With interactive features, AI-powered enhancements, and clear dashboards, Care Control ensures:

• Accurate tracking of food and fluid intake.
• Easy to use interfaces for quick documentation.
• Better insights into the service user nutrition and hydration.

If you’re looking for a care management system that support better record-keeping and helps improve nutrition and hydration monitoring, Care Control is the all-in-one solution you need.

Want to see these features in action? Book a free trial today and discover how Care Control can transform the way you manage care.