NEW MENU ON OFFER TO PATIENTS.

A MERSEYSIDE hospital has launched a finger food menu to help patients with dementia.

Patients with the debilitating condition can often struggle with cutlery, according to specialist matron for dementia Jane Green, which has led to Fazakerley hospital putting special finger food boxes on the menu.

Ms Green said all dementia patients were individual and should be treated as such but that they wanted the extra food option after noticing dementia patients tended to eat more if they were not confronted with a huge meal.

She said: "Often patients with advanced dementia can struggle with cutlery.

"The finger food menu enables them to eat a full, nutritionally balanced meal with their fingers.

"Patients with dementia might not recognise current things such as a Subway sandwich. It wouldn't register as a sandwich so wouldn't be eaten, but a triangular shaped sandwich would and they would eat this."