Upcoming webinar: AHCA/NCAL is hosting a free, 60-minute presentation on March 10 at 2:00 pm discussing modern dining and complementary wellbeing practices for senior living residents.

The big picture: Modern dining approaches in senior living embrace whole-person practices of care. Today’s modern communities focus on individualized preferences utilizing menu options, flexible dining times, restaurant-quality recipes, and a health-forward focus that optimizes the resident experience.

• Complementary wellbeing programming focusing on lifestyle enrichment can enhance nutritional status and bolster safeguards around malnutrition and advancing chronic disease.

A Whole-Person Approach to Resident Dining & Wellbeing
March 10, 2026 | 2:00 pm

What you’ll learn:

1. Understand how modern dining approaches enhance resident experience and help in retaining census
2. Be able to describe how dining programs directly affect resident risk of malnutrition & chronic disease
3. List three ways that upgrading menus, recipes, dining options, and plate presentation can enhance resident satisfaction
4. Understand the interconnectedness between wellbeing lifestyle programming, nutrition, and resident outcomes
5. Be able to discuss the nuance of the new Dietary Guidelines as they relate to nutrition for older adults

Faculty include Jen Bruning, MS, RDN, LDN, Senior Director of Partner Education for Incite Strategic Partners, and Linda Ricco, Vice President of Healthcare Solutions for TCM Consulting & Management. One CEU for CDM-CFPPs approved by ANFP.

Register now even if you can’t attend on March 10. All registrants will be notified when the recorded webinar is available.