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Heat-Free Meal Recipes

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource offers 15 balanced, no-heat meal ideas for clients who can’t safely use a stove, microwave, or toaster oven. It’s a practical tool for supporting independence and nutrition in home health, neuro rehab, or cognitive rehab settings.
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Nutrition Label Sorting Activity

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This adapted nutrition label sorting activity helps clients build visual scanning and comparison skills using real-life food labels. Designed to spark meaningful conversations rather than deliver right-or-wrong answers, it supports flexible, person-centered therapy across cognitive levels.
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Mindful Eating Reflection Guide

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This mindful eating reflection guide helps clients build a more supportive, curious relationship with food by focusing on sensory experience, emotional awareness, and self-compassion. It’s designed for therapists to use in sessions with individuals exploring eating habits as part of their daily routines, without promoting restrictive or judgmental approaches.
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Aging in Place: Supporting Nutrition & Hydration

December 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource provides information focused on supporting safe and proper nutrition and hydration in the elderly at home, including the risks of malnutrition and dehydration, contributing factors, and interventions.
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Reading a Nutritional Label

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This therapy material works on cognition and mathematical skills, as well as health management via reading a nutritional label.
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When Food is No Longer a Comfort

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Facing the end of life for a loved one is challenging. This handout will explain why some people stop eating and drinking toward the end of life and how family members can continue showing love and care in other ways.
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Parkinson’s Disease and Sense of Time

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout explains how Parkinson’s disease can disrupt the individual’s sense of time and this can impact accuracy with medication management and nutrition.
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Nutrition Packed Smoothies for People with Dysphagia

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Are your patients on puree diets sick of applesauce, pudding, and yogurt? Smoothies offer an enormous range of options to improve taste and nutrition for people who are on altered textured diets. This 3-page visual handout offers specific smoothie ingredient options to improve intake of proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and to improve digestive and overall health. To be used in collaboration with a dietitian.
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