Mum has unspecified dementia and lives in a supportive living environment. We see her a couple of times a week and she comes to us for her dinner one night a week and this is the area I’m struggling with. I work from home full time and make a concerted effort to prepare and cook a nutritious meal and dessert every week but it’s becoming harder to know what to cook that she will eat.
I normally cook meals that she herself would have made (meat and two veg traditional food) but she is now pushing them away, I know she can’t help it but I want to scream that I’ve cooked with love and whilst working so please eat. What other types of food can I try? I don’t want to just give her chips and chicken nuggets which is now what she gets at her supportive living place.
cooking is my love language (that and doing all her admin) but I’m struggling
I normally cook meals that she herself would have made (meat and two veg traditional food) but she is now pushing them away, I know she can’t help it but I want to scream that I’ve cooked with love and whilst working so please eat. What other types of food can I try? I don’t want to just give her chips and chicken nuggets which is now what she gets at her supportive living place.
cooking is my love language (that and doing all her admin) but I’m struggling