Toolkits:
- State Advocate Toolkit: Advancing Policies for Quality Malnutrition Care in Older Adults: A Toolkit for Constituents and Driving Change (PDF)
- State Legislator Toolkit (2021 Update): Advancing Policies for Quality Malnutrition Care in Older Adults: A Toolkit for State Legislators (PDF)
- State Legislator Toolkit Infographic, 2021 Update (PDF)
- Dialogue Proceedings - Malnutrition in Care Transitions, PDF
- Malnutrition for Professionals, WEBSITE
- Malnutrition for Caregivers, WEBSITE
- ASPEN Malnutrition Tools and Resources, WEBSITE
- Food Is Medicine Advocacy Toolkit, PDF
- Malnutrition Quality Improvement Initiative (MQii) Toolkit, WEBSITE
- Alliance for Aging Research Malnutrition Information: FILM (also available in Spanish), RESOURCES, PRESS RELEASE
Other Resources:
- Congressional Research Service Memo on Older Adult Malnutrition, 2022 Update, PDF
- National Blueprint: Achieving Quality Malnutrition Care for Older Adults, 2020 Update, PDF
- 2020 Infographic, PDF
- National Blueprint: Achieving Quality Malnutrition Care for Older Adults (2017 version), PDF
- 2017 Infographic, PDF
- Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report on Senior Nutrition, WEBSITE
- DMT Press Release on GAO Report, PDF
- Letter from Sens. Casey and Murray to Government Accountability Office, PDF
- Malnutrition Policy Fact Sheet, PDF
- Letter to CMS from House Members on Quality Measure, PDF
- Congressional Research Service Memo on Older Adult Malnutrition, PDF
- State-specific 2021 Infographic, Word doc
- How to talk to older adults about food insecurity, WEBSITE
Healthy People 2030
The Healthy People 2030 is the nation's 10-year plan for addressing public health priorities and challenges. Using data collected over the past forty years, the plan sets objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Some of these goals address malnutrition and food insecurity challenges like:
- Reduce household food insecurity and hunger
- Increase the proportion of adults who get recommended evidence-based preventive health care
- Increase the proportion of people with health insurance
- Reduce the proportion of people living in poverty
- Oral Health
- Community Services
- Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Click the links above to see what data the US collects and how we're meeting these goals. Click here to see all the objectives.
OLDER AMERICANS ACT NUTRITION SERVICES
The Older Americans Act (OAA) helps support social and nutrition services for older adults. OAA nutrition programs are congregate (senior center) meals and Meals on Wheels.
Access to OAA nutrition programs is critical to helping reduce older adult malnutrition. This map has links to each state's OAA programs. Share the map to help increase use of these programs by older adults and help defeat malnutrition today.
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP)
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal nutrition program. It provides supplemental benefits to individuals/families for purchasing nutritious food. Only a small percent of older adults enroll in/use SNAP compared to those who are actually eligible.
By increasing SNAP enrollment/use among eligible older adults we may be able to reduce malnutrition. This map has links to each state's SNAP application. Share the map to help increase SNAP use by older adults and help defeat malnutrition today.