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1.5 Title III C Nutrition Services: Enhance the quality and variety of meals offered to older New Mexicans to allow for personal choice, dietary restrictions, and cultural differences. Ensure consumers have access to and knowledge about nutritionally balanced meals and options.
Story Behind the Curve
Provided by local senior nutrition programs, these services include heathy home-delivered meals and meals served in group settings, such as senior centers and faith-based locations. In addition, the programs provide a range of services including nutrition screening, assessment, education, and counseling. Nutrition services also provide an important link to other supportive in-home and community-based supports such as homemaker and home-health aide services, transportation, physical activity and chronic disease self-management programs, home repair and modification, and falls prevention programs.
Partners
Area Agencies on Aging, State and Older Americans Act Senior Service Providers including Tribal Senior Service Providers
What We Do
- Support aging in place-providing services in homes and communities
- Support caregivers
- Combat senior hunger
- Encourage healthy and productive aging
- Build and sustain capabilities to meet emerging needs and challenges
Who We Serve
At the heart of the Aging and Long-Term Services Department’s mission is the belief that New Mexico’s older adults and adults with disabilities have the right to remain active participants in their communities, to age with respect and dignity, to be protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation and to have equal access to health care. The Department is a leader in developing programs and building partnerships that support lifelong independence and healthy aging.
How We Impact
Provide accessible, integrated services to older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers to assist in maintaining their independence, dignity, health, safety, and economic well-being, thereby empowering them to live independently in their own communities as productively as possible.
Important notes
Data Source: https://www.americashealthrankings.org/learn/reports/2022-senior-report/state-summaries-new-mexico
Design Specification: Non-Data Driven Measure
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Design Specification: Non-Data Driven Measure |
Performance Dates |
Frequency of Reporting |
Actions Taken/Results |
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Provide ongoing technical assistance as well as host at least one meeting per year with the AAAs and nutrition providers to share best practices, lessons learned, older adult’s dietary needs/restrictions, culturally appropriate menus, consumer choice and local purchasing. |
☒ 2022 ☒ 2023 ☒ 2024 ☒ 2025 |
☒ Annually Reporting Month ↓ July SFY22 (7/1/2021–6/30/2022) |
2022 – Conference on Aging and TIPS Training |
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Develop an annual advertising platform to promote OAA services: collaborate with other state agencies/campaigns, marketing materials, social media focused on nutrition and food insecurity and targeted to the culturally diverse communities in NM. |
☒ 2023 ☒ 2024 ☒ 2025 |
☒ Annually Reporting Month ↓ July SFY23 (7/1/2022–6/30/2023) |
SFY 2023 |
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Provide one training per year to the AAA’s and nutrition providers, led by a registered, licensed dietitian to address meal pattern requirements of the OAA to assure delivery of nutritious meals and to promote increased use of fresh fruits and vegetables. |
☒ 2023 ☒ 2024 ☒ 2025 |
☒ Annually Reporting Month ↓ July SFY23 (7/1/2022–6/30/2023) |
SFY 2023 |
Measures
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