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
- Building the Business Capacity of Senior Nutrition Programs 2016-2017
- Change Management: Process Evaluation and General Guidance
- Congregate Meal Programs Value Proposition
- FAQ: Managing OAA Funded Senior Nutrition Programs During Emergencies
- Grocery Delivery Options by County Template
- Guide to Working with Restaurants and Grocery Stores for Meals
- Innovation: Part Discipline, Part Creativity, All Possible Summary Brief
- Local and National Shelf Stable/Frozen Meals Vendor Template
- Marketing: Re-Thinking Your Understanding and Re-Assessing Your Strategy
- Meal Services Elements of Sustainability: Establishing a Private Pay Program
- Medical Nutrition Therapy Works for Seniors
- Options for Contracting Meals
- Partnerships with Foodbanks and Other USDA Programs
- 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
- The Dining Experience - Congregate Meal Policy Myth Busters
- Training Strategy Recommendations for Senior Nutrition Programs
- Use of Incentives for Older Americans Act Grantees
- Using Groceries and Other Nutrition Services to Meet Senior Needs
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
- Advocacy Toolkits (Defeat Malnutrition Today)
- Aging and Disabilities Business Institute Contracting Toolkit (n4a)
- Contracting Toolkit (n4a)
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans Toolkit for Nutrition Professionals (DGA)
- HCBS Business Acumen Center Toolkit
- Medical Nutrition Therapy Works for Seniors Toolkit (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)
- 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)