This page contains a number of handouts and resources related to eating, drinking and swallowing.
General advice and strategies
- Common problems and helpful hints if you have lost weight or losing weight or have a small appetite (pdf)
- Eating and drinking with Acknowledged Risk (pdf)
- Eating and drinking strategies
- Managing dysphagia checklist with tick boxes
- Managing excess saliva and drooling
- Managing reflux (docx)
- Managing saliva
- Oesophageal dysphagia
- Stroke Association leaflet (pdf)
- Swallow diary
- What to do when swallowing becomes a problem (pdf)
Dementia
- Dementia dysphagia strategies
- Living well with dementia: maintain independence when eating and drinking (pdf)
- Managing eating and drinking behaviours that might challenge
Modified diet and fluids
- Position statement on the use of thickened fluids in the management of people with swallowing difficulties (pdf)
- PEG feeding (pdf)
- Level 1 slightly thick liquids (pdf)
- Level 2 mildly thick liquids (pdf)
- Level 3 moderately thick liquids (pdf)
- Level 3 liquidised food (pdf)
- Level 4 extremely thick liquids (pdf)
- Level 4 pureed food (pdf)
- Level 4 pureed food to avoid (pdf)
- Level 5 minced & moist food (pdf)
- Examples of Level 5 minced & moist food (pdf)
- Level 5 minced & moist food to avoid (pdf)
- Examples of Level 6 soft & bite-sized food (pdf)
- Level 6 soft & bite-sized food to avoid (pdf)
- Level 7 regular food (pdf)
- Level 7 regular easy to chew (pdf)
- Level 7 regular easy to chew food to avoid (pdf)
- Examples of Level 7 regular easy to chew food (pdf)
Teeth and mouth care
- How to take care of your teeth for adults (pdf)
- Mouthcare for people with swallowing problems (pdf)
- Supporting oral health in others (pdf)
Information videos
- Assisting others (YouTube)
- IDDSI (YouTube)
- Normal swallow, difficulty swallowing, aspiration and risks (YouTube)
- Oral health (YouTube)
- Referring to our service (YouTube)
- Thickening fluids (YouTube)
Leaflets
- Eating and drinking with Acknowledged Risk (pdf)
- Eating and drinking at end of life (pdf)
- Common problems and helpful hints if you have lost weight or losing weight or have a small appetite (pdf)
- Communication and dementia (pdf)
- Community ten ways to keep your voice sounding great (pdf)
- Dementia dysphagia strategies (pdf)
- Eating and drinking Strategies (pdf)
- How to take care of your teeth for adults (communitydentalservices.co.uk) (pdf)
- Living well with dementia – maintaining independence when eating and drinking (pdf)
- Managing eating and drinking behaviours (pdf)
- Managing reflux (docx)
- Managing saliva (pdf)
- Mouth care for people with swallowing problems (pdf)
- PEG feeding (pdf)
- Position statement on the use of thickened fluids in the management of people with swallowing difficulties (pdf)
- Stroke Association Leaflet (pdf)
- Supporting oral health in others (communitydentalservices.co.uk) (pdf)
- What to do when swallowing becomes a problem (pdf)
Handouts
- Level 1 Slightly thick (pdf)
- Level 2 Mildly thick (pdf)
- Level 3 Moderately thick (pdf)
- Level 3 Liquidised (pdf)
- Level 4 Extremely thick (pdf)
- Level 4 Pureed, foods to avoid (pdf)
- Level 4 Pureed (pdf)
- Level 5 Minced and moist (pdf)
- Level 5 Minced and moist, examples (pdf)
- Level 5 Minced and moist, foods to avoid (pdf)
- Level 6 Soft and bite sized, examples (pdf)
- Level 6 Soft and bite sized, foods to avoid (pdf)
- Level 7 Regular (pdf)
- Level 7 Easy to chew (pdf)
- Level 7 Easy to chew, foods to avoid (pdf)
- Level 7 Easy to chew, examples