Currently, the Nutrition Division of Daiseikai has 7 dietitians, 1 nutritionist, 5 cooks, and 5 part-time cooks (one of whom is employed by a disabled person), a total of 18 people, providing approximately 550 meals per day for the hospital and geriatric healthcare facilities combined, and providing nutritional care for each individual.

One of the facility's initiatives is soft meals for the elderly.
Until now, it has been common practice to serve chopped food to those who have difficulty chewing and swallowing due to paralysis or loss of strength.

However, chopped meals are designed for people with weakened chewing (masticatory) strength, but they break up in the oral cavity, making it difficult to swallow. It has been found that chopped food is not suitable for people with weakened swallowing (swallowing) strength or those who cannot move their tongues well.
Although there are individual differences, many elderly people are losing the ability to chew and swallow, so it is important to take both into consideration when eating.

Therefore, we introduced "soft meals for the elderly" and "mixer solid meals (swallowed meals)" at our facility in 2005.
Soft foods are soft and easy to chew, and are designed to pass easily through the mouth, making them easy to transfer to the oral cavity. Solid mixed meals (swallowed meals) are easy to swallow, and after being swallowed, food debris does not remain in the mouth, which helps to prevent aspiration pneumonia.
Another feature of soft foods is their beautiful appearance. No matter how easy or safe the food is to eat, it is meaningless if the appearance makes people not want to eat it.

In this way, we are committed to having people eat until their last spoonful at our facility, and we strive to make the enjoyment and pleasure of eating a part of their lives as long as possible.