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Follow your nose: Scented rooms whet residents’ appetites

We scent our memory care dining rooms before meals to help encourage residents’ appetites. A lot of our memory care dining rooms have some degree of open-kitchen dining, so it’s simply putting a tablespoon of sweet spices, whether it’s cinnamon or fennel or ginger, into a saucepan and letting it simmer.

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Rob Bobbitt National Director of Dining ServicesWatermark Retirement Communities Tucson, AZ

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