Nutrition
Nutrition Services, funded through Central Illinois Agency on Aging Inc. include congregate meals and home-delivered meals. These services are funded under Title III-C. (Older Americans Act Section 331)
Congregate Meal Services
Provision of nutritious meals, to an eligible client or other eligible participants at a nutrition site, senior center or some other congregate setting.
Eligible individuals (include but not limited to):
- Age 60 or older and the spouse of those individuals regardless of age, if the eligible spouse is or has been an active participant in the program.
- Disabled individuals who have not attained 60 years of age, but who reside in housing facilities occupied primarily by the elderly at which congregate nutrition services are provided.
Complies with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Agriculture and provides each participant with a minimum of 33-1/3percent of the current daily Dietary Reference Intakes as established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.