Your profile says your husband is: "...79 years old, living in a nursing home with alzheimer's / dementia, anxiety, depression, hearing loss, incontinence, mobility problems, and sleep disorder." Is he in AL or MC or SNF? LTC? I'm not sure it's a battle that needs to be fought. At his age and with his problems, he's not building a body for the future anymore so nutrition is more about just getting enough calories for daily expenditure. My 100-yr old Aunt lived on corn muffins & coffee for breakfast, 1/2 can of chicken soup for lunch and the other half of that can of soup for dinner almost every single day for years.
Let him just eat his sandwiches and ice-cream if that's what makes him happy. When someone has dementia, you have to choose your battles, and I'm not sure this one is worth fighting. A happy dementia person eating sandwiches and ice-cream is much better than an unhappy one forced to eat food they don't want. I'm just saying. My late husband who had vascular dementia, ate sandwiches every single day for lunch for many months as that was all he wanted, and hot dogs for supper. Of course that all changed when he developed aspiration pneumonia and I had to then pureed all his foods, but as long as he was eating something, I was happy and so was he.
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The goal is not to make him live a long and healthy life with a broken mind.
When someone has dementia, you have to choose your battles, and I'm not sure this one is worth fighting.
A happy dementia person eating sandwiches and ice-cream is much better than an unhappy one forced to eat food they don't want. I'm just saying.
My late husband who had vascular dementia, ate sandwiches every single day for lunch for many months as that was all he wanted, and hot dogs for supper.
Of course that all changed when he developed aspiration pneumonia and I had to then pureed all his foods, but as long as he was eating something, I was happy and so was he.