Tips & Guides
These tip sheets, toolkits, and guides can help you to manage your senior nutrition program and services.
From the Resource Center
- Business 101: Tips to Ensure Your Program Runs Smoothly and Efficiently
- Congregate Meal Programs Value Proposition
- Guide to Working with Restaurants and Grocery Stores for Meals
- Health, Well-Being, and/or Social Connections in a Remote Environment
- Innovation: Part Discipline, Part Creativity, All Possible Summary Brief
- Marketing: Re-Thinking Your Understanding and Re-Assessing Your Strategy
- Meal Services Elements of Sustainability: Establishing a Private Pay Program
- Options for Contracting Meals During COVID-19
- Recruiting and Working with Volunteers
- Senior Nutrition Program Spending Ideas
- Senior Nutrition Programs and Sustainability: Guide to Prioritizing Clients
- Tele or Virtual Nutrition Education for Older Adults
- Use of Incentives for Older Americans Act Grantees
Program Activity Guides
- Guided Imagery Activity Guide - Relaxation technique/exercise
- Nutritionary Activity Guide - Drawing and guessing game
- Text Challenge Activity Guide - Group-text health challenges
- Car Show & Parade Activity Guide - Safely distanced community event
- Did You Know? Game Activity Guide - Gathering to encourage connection
- Recipe Sharing Activity Guide - Group project with opportunity for culture exchange
- Crack the Code Activity Guide - Word unscrambling game
From Partners and Other Sources
- Addressing Malnutrition in Community Living Older Adults: A Toolkit for AAAs (Maryland DoA)
- Advocacy Toolkits (Defeat Malnutrition Today)
- Aging and Disabilities Business Institute Contracting Toolkit (n4a)
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans Toolkit for Nutrition Professionals (DGA)
- HCBS Business Acumen Center Toolkit
- Senior Centers Connect Guide (NCOA)
- Seven Ways Businesses Can Align with Public Health for Bold Action and Innovation (Johns Hopkins)
- Teach SD: Training Volunteers to Teach Tech to Older Adults (South Dakota State University)
- Tools for Reaching a Remote Audience (NCOA)