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Volume 1, Issue 6

The Final Forkful

This late-month newsletter covers exciting nutrition network news that happened this month.

From the Nutrition and Aging

Resource Center

Making Your Meal Program THRIVE: Addressing Ageist Cultures and Practices

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!

This presentation will discuss a University of Arizona Center on Aging project called THRIVE. Project THRIVE focused on how independent and assisted living facilities could ensure an emotionally safe, supportive, and inclusive environment. The project was funded by the American Seniors Housing Association and was done in partnership with Watermark Retirement Communities and Mather Life Ways.


Similar to senior centers and congregate meal sites, the communal living environment in these facilities opens the door to opportunities for older adults to develop new and rewarding social relationships and to engage in activities that promote personal growth and satisfaction. However, whenever groups of people of any age have close, frequent, and ongoing interactions with each other, there can be tension that may interrupt these opportunities.


When tension, microaggressions, and even bullying occurs in these settings, it can be especially hard for older adults who have the additional challenge of having to navigate aging-related conditions in a community where everyone is growing older differently and where each person may have different perceptions of their own aging as well as others around them.


Project THRIVE adapted successful public school-based interventions to optimize the quality of life of older adults and increase staff satisfaction through an intentional focus on culture change. We will discuss identification and implementation strategies that can be used in any communal setting to help build a safe, supportive, and inclusive culture.


Objectives:

- Identify socialization challenges older adults encounter in communal settings.

- Describe the evidence-based public-school program, Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS).

- Explain how to adapt evidence-based school strategies to communal settings to build a safe and inclusive culture.

Registration for the webinar

Malnutrition Awareness Week



Date: September 19-23, 2022

Website: https://www.nutritioncare.org/maw 

Contact Information: (301) 587-6315, aspen@nutritioncare.org


The Nutrition and Aging Resource Center has partnered with ASPEN, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, for ASPEN Malnutrition Awareness Week (MAW) on September 19-23, 2022.

As an ambassador, the Nutrition and Aging Resource Center has complimentary access to ASPEN’s MAW webinars and resources.


Continuing education credit is available for most of the webinars. The webinars have limited capacity, so register now to reserve your spot. Enter code MAW-IowaAging to receive a 100 percent discount.


Help to increase awareness of nutrition’s role on patient recovery online by using the hashtag #ASPENMAW22. For more information and to register, visit https://www.nutritioncare.org/maw.


*ASPEN is accredited to provide medical, pharmacy, nursing, and dietetic credits.

Nutrition and Aging News From the Network

The Parks and Public Places Collection


Public places and parks are locations to build a sense of community and belonging. These places belong to everyone, no matter the age, gender, ethnicity, religion or income.


The ways that public spaces are designed and maintained do not always show the purpose and promise of the intention for the space.


The Creating Parks and Public Places for People of All Ages: A Step-by-Step Guide was produced by AARP. The document helps to highlight the importance that parks hold within a community. The Guide also shares the tools needed to create and improve public places of all kinds for people of all ages.

Grant Opportunity

Grant Announcements!


The State Physical Activity and Nutrition Program (SPAN) Grant:

  • Support implementation of evidence-based strategies
  • "To improve nutrition and access to safe physical activity"


The High Obesity Program (HOP) Grant:

  • "Poor nutrition and low levels of physical activity affect overall health and are significant risk factors for obesity and other chronic diseases"
  • Support implementation of evidence-based strategies that "improve nutrition, safe and accessible physical activity"


The Racial and Ethic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Grant:

  • "Improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest risk"

Promising Practices in Food Insecurity



On August 31, join ACL’s Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (ONHPP) for a webinar on State Units on Aging Promising Practices in Food Insecurity. Many states are implementing ways to improve food insecurity in their states. Some states are starting to make major efforts to change the way their program addresses food insecurity. Join us to hear successful solutions that have been implemented in states to combat food insecurity within the aging program.


Presenters:

Kathryn Tucker, MS, RD, LD, Contractor, ACL;

Carmen Clutter, MS, RDN, LD, Assistant Chief in the Elder Connections Division at the Ohio Department of Aging;

Ophelia Steppe, State Nutritionist for the Aging and Long-Term Services Department for New Mexico.

2022 INNU Grants Awarded


ACL recently awarded cooperative agreements aimed at validating successful and innovative senior nutrition program models, including those created during COVID-19.

Three community research grants, totaling $1,449,618 in FY22 awards, will be used to focus on sustaining congregate and home-delivered meal programs as well as delivering impactful nutrition education.

Seven replication grants, totaling $769,622 in FY22 awards, will fund projects that will demonstrate the ability to replicate previously funded Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services research and demonstration grant projects, which have shown positive impacts on socialization and the health and nutritional status of older adults.

Strategic Plan Input Requested


The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) is seeking input from the research community and other interested parties for the ODS Strategic Plan for 2022-2026. ODS is specifically seeking input on the following: Are there additional emerging public health issues that ODS can help address?

Are there existing knowledge gaps that ODS can help address (not included in the current plan)?

Is there anything that ODS can do differently to meet the needs of its stakeholders? Please email responses to these questions to ODSplan@od.nih.gov no later than August 31, 2022.

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Kentucky Senior Hunger Summit


Join the virtual 2022 Kentucky Senior Hunger Summit on November 2 and hear engaging speakers, including Erin Hoisington and Bambi Press from the Nutrition and Aging Resource Center. Register today!

Senior Nutrition Programs in the News

The Administration for Community Living has created a page on the Nutrition and Aging Resource Center page that collects and highlights news stories related to senior nutrition programs across the nation.

Have a story to be shared? Email aclnutrition@betah.com 

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