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Also helpful, getting her to participate in meal planning and food preparation. I find something for her to slice or chop or any other way to help get dinner ready that is simple and can be done sitting at the table. I ask her if she'd mind "helping" me. I do something else in the kitchen and stay very busy and out of the way of her task. She feels important and more interested in eating.
Hope your mom is eating better. Let us know how it's going.
Kimbee
When my husband doesn't feel like eating and I ask if a milkshake sounds good, the answer is almost always yes. I start with a bottle of Boost or a hi-protein yogurt smoothie (neither of which he will drink by itself), or a Carnation Instant Breakfast in milk, add a couple scoops of ice cream, and something of compatible flavor. Into the yogurt smoothies I add fresh strawberries and/or raspberries and/or frozen blueberries. Into a vanilla Boost might go canned peaches. A chocolate instant breakfast might get a banana and peanut butter. Zizz it altogether in the blender. So Hubby doesn't get "lunch" but he is able to consume about the same number of calories, and at least some nutrition.
A couple of scoops of ice cream add some appeal and calories to a tall glass of rootbeer. A plain dish of ice cream, or with strawberries, or with strawberries and chocolate sauce and a few nuts, seems more appealing than a bowl of soup sometimes.
These strategies are meant to add calories and prevent weight loss, and to provide pleasure. My husband is a "foodie" and it is sad for him not to have an appetite. Good food experiences help beat the doldrums, too. Bring on the ice cream!
I agree with Kimbee's approach -- find foods she might enjoy in spite of a decreased appetite. And if that is pot pie for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, so be it. And as Tonio says, lots of snacks might work better than larger meals. (In our case, especially if some of the snacks include ice cream.)
Good luck.
If they can read the box, you kinda need to hide it as Megace is often given to cancer and AIDS patients for appetite enhancer. My mom was convinced that she had cancer because it said so on the insert.....
My mom is also on Remeron - it;s an old-school anti anxiety med that also has an appetite enhancer component. So in addition to allowing her to relax and sleep better it also helps her to eat a bit more.
If they drop more than 10% in weight in 30 days, this can be used to get them into a NH should you need to do that. My mom was in IL and lost like 18% of body weight from one 6 week visit to another. So this combined with a critical h & h levels, she was able to get into a NH and bypass moving to AL. Weight loss can also be used to evaluate her for at-home hospice care as she may be in the failure to thrive stage of her life. None of this is easy. Good luck.