What We Do
Who we work with
We provide home based nutrition therapy to adults living with disability and/or undergoing rehabilitation.
We can help you with your goals in the following areas:
- Optimising nutrition for neurological conditions (e.g brain injury, spinal cord injury & motor neurone disease)
- Enteral feeding (nasogastric feeds & PEG tubes)
- Swallowing difficulties & texture modified diets
- Supporting you to live well with an amputation
- Maintaining and achieving a body size that is right for you
- Maximising your physical and cognitive function with nutrition
- Chronic conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease
- Preventing and treating malnutrition & nutrient deficiencies (iron, B12, etc.)
- Irritable bowel syndrome & inflammatory bowel disease
- Other digestive issues (e.g. reflux, constipation, diarrhoea, diverticular disease, food intolerances & coeliac disease)
Funding
Next Step Nutrition can see clients under the
following funding streams:
- NDIS Self-managed
- NDIS Plan-managed
- Private clients
What you can expect
We work with you to create a personalised approach to achieve your goals and maximise your function. This can include:
- a nutritional needs assessment
- a personalised eating and drinking plan
- a tube feeding plan that suit your lifestyle
- nutritional counselling to help you to make changes
- strategies to help you to eat well (this can include healthy eating education, increasing your independence in food-budgeting, cooking and creating recipes)
- advice to help you to manage a health condition