Specifications include, but are not limited to: Provide nutrition services to individuals ages 60 and older throughout Barnes, Dickey, Foster, Griggs, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Sheridan, Stutsman, and Wells counties in the South Central area of ND. Nutrition services are available to: • Reduce hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition of eligible individuals; • Promote socialization of eligible individuals; • Promote the health and well-being of eligible individuals by assisting them in gaining access to: o Nutrition; and o Other disease prevention and health related services to delay the onset of adverse health conditions resulting from poor nutritional health; and • Meals are often the first service that an older individual receives and is an access point for other home and community-based services. Priority for nutrition services (congregate and home-delivered) must be given to older individuals: • Residing in rural areas. • With the greatest economic need (with particular attention to lowincome older individuals including minorities with limited English proficiency). • With the greatest social need (with particular attention to low-income older individuals including minorities with limited English proficiency). • With severe disabilities. • With limited English proficiency. • With Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders with neurological and organic brain dysfunction and the caretakers of such individuals. • At risk for institutional placement.
