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Malnutrition: Moving from Awareness to Action (Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week™ 2020)

Thank you for helping us to spread the word about this week and for your participation!

Malnutrition: Moving from Awareness to Action (Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week™ 2020)

Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week (CMAW) will take place from October 5 to 9, 2020. This year's theme is Malnutrition: Moving from Awareness to Action. Please help us raise awareness about this important effort that aims to “Move from Awareness to Action” for malnutrition, particularly amongst healthcare leaders, policy makers and other decision makers. 

Malnutrition Prevention, Detection and Treatment– Public Review is now live

Public reviews are an opportunity for anyone to review and comment on draft standards before they are published.This is your opportunity to provide your input between August 27, 2020 and October 27, 2020.

Menu Planning in LTC & Canada’s Food Guide

New Resource: Menu Planning in Long Term Care and Canada's Food Guide (2019)

Nutrition Resources For COVID-19 Patients

CMTF and CNS are pleased to announce the creation of two nutrition resources that were developed to help patients and their families, and nutrition clinicians across the country.

Apply for funding: Nourish's "COVID-19 Food Rx Fund: Patient Food Insecurity"

Support for health care organizations to meet the needs of their patients for whom the pandemic has created, or is exacerbating, food insecurity.

CMTF Updates

News from the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF)

Survey: Nutrition Care Practices in Primary Care, the Community, and the Hospital

Please complete and forward this survey information throughout your network by May 30, 2020

CMTF has developed two nutrition care pathways to prevent, detect, and treat malnutrition among: older adults living in the community; and people going back to the community after being in the hospital. Please complete and forward this survey about the pathways throughout your network. Deadline: May 30, 2020

New COVID-19 and Nutrition Infographic

CNS is pleased to share a COVID-19 and Nutrition infographic that provides guidance on how to stay strong and healthy through good nutrition. It is available on the Canadian Nutrition Society and Canadian Malnutrition Task Force's websites along with a compilation of other COVID-19 support resources.

COVID-19 Support Resources

As we all try to navigate through this unprecedented and extremely challenging COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF) is compiling a list of resources that may be useful to our network. We will continually update this page as more materials become available.