Caregiver Tips for Healthy Eating This Holiday Season
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EST)
Master holiday wellness for yourself and the seniors in your care. This comprehensive workshop addresses the unique challenges caregivers face during the festive season, from managing their own nutrition while caring for others, to ensuring aging loved ones enjoy celebrations safely. Discover techniques to encourage senior appetite, adapt recipes, prevent holiday-related hospitalizations, and recognize nutrition-related warning signs.
Address caregiver-specific concerns: meal planning when time is scarce, preventing caregiver burnout through nutrition, managing multiple dietary needs at one table, and communicating health requirements to well-meaning relatives. Explore mindful eating practices that reduce stress, immune-boosting strategies for both you and seniors, and gentle ways to maintain boundaries around food pressure.
Receive practical tools, adaptive recipe guides, and self-care strategies -because you can't pour from an empty cup.
Topics Covered:
Adapting Traditional Holiday Recipes
Managing Medications and Meal Timing
Preventing Senior Malnutrition During Celebrations
Caregiver Self-Care and Stress Management
Safe Food Textures and Hydration Strategies
This workshop is being offered by Kimberly Reckert, Marketing and Public Relations Strategy Manager for Professional Care Match. She holds a B.S. in Psychology and brings 12 years of experience in community health improvement management within complex healthcare systems, with a focus on addressing social determinants of health among vulnerable populations, including chronic disease prevention, access to healthy foods, and nutrition interventions. Kimberly’s experience includes working with multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative programs, including a prescription/food pharmacy pilot for cancer patients and community/clinical linkage interventions targeting high infant mortality rates among at-risk populations. She served as an active member of Food Policy Councils and the Massachusetts Food is Medicine statewide planning and advocacy Steering Committee, regularly providing policy and legislative testimony at local, state, and federal levels. Additionally, she has managed training programs and supervised Community Health Workers in home-visiting interventions that address root causes and environmental factors affecting patients' and their families' health. To sign up for this workshop: 1. Email [email protected] (be sure to specify the date of the workshop you would like to attend and provide your contact info) or 2. Call us at 508-203-8299
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