Aged Care Insite Issue 98 | December-January 2017 | Page 25

practical living and sometimes we have a tray service if somebody is in bed convalescing. We use the [newer] space to train the care workers, who aren’t professional cooks, to improve their cooking skills and work on any particular issues. We also use it to test different recipes before they’re added to our menus, just to make sure they work and to iron out any [kinks]. [Before we built the training kitchen], residents in our facility in Bond House would have