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The Senior Nutrition Program is designed to provide a hot meal to older adults living in Carver, Dakota, and Scott counties. The program offers two options for seniors depending on their geographic area:

• Congregate Meals: Meals served midday in Belle Plaine and Jordan
• Home Delivered Meals: Meals delivered directly to seniors in certain cities

Meals on Wheels through Lutheran Social Services

• Mobile meals are available to those who are unable to prepare their own meals

Provides daily meals to seniors - $4.00 donation for age 60 & older - $6.00 donation for under age 60 For home meals, call (218)999-1045 between 7:00 am - 2:00 pm

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications: Provides assistance with applications for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a county-run, state-supervised Federal program that helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for sound nutrition and well-balanced meals. The program issues electronic food support benefits that can help stretch your household food budget.

• Information and Referral: Offers information on resources of local food shelves

• Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) Applications: The program is designed to provide healthy and nutritious food products each month at no cost to eligible individuals over the age of 60. Helps eligible individuals apply for the program.

• Second Harvest Heartland: Provides a free food distribution program to those in need

• Prairie Five Meals Program: Offers congregate dining, home delivered, and frozen meals serving 34 communities in the area. Frozen meals are available for weekend, holiday, emergency and rural delivery. The program promotes health and independent living in the senior population through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation.

Elder services include the following:

• Monthly newsletters to keep communication available on planned activities (i.e. concerts, pow-wows, etc.) and other information

• Nutritious meals served Monday - Friday at Nett Lake and Vermilion Community Centers with home-delivered meals available to elders who are unable to go to the sites

• Transportation for shopping monthly

?- Wisdom Steps Program: Preventative health program. Encourages elders to actively participate in programs that promote health screenings, health education, healthy living activities and evidence-based health programs. Elders who become members of the program and complete a minimum of 46,000 steps per year, and complete health screenings and exams become eligible to attend the annual Wisdom Steps Conference Free of charge. Participants earn incentives and recognition at the conference for their work towards becoming healthy and the number of steps that they walk during the year through a Tier system.

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include:

• Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP

• Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education

• Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults

• Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation.

• Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

Provides social opportunities and nutrition services for older adults, including card games, group activities, daily congregate meals, and home-delivered meals for eligible individuals.

• Title III Congregate Meal provision to an elderly client or other eligible participant at a nutrition site, senior center or some other congregate setting.

• Title III Home Delivered Meals may be made available to individuals with disabilities who reside in a non-institutional household with and are accompanied by an individual eligible for congregate meals.

• Title VI Congregate and Home Delivered Meals will include enrolled members of any recognized tribe aged 55 years or over within the program service area. Eligibility will include spouse, handicapped or disabled individual in the same household of the eligible participant who accompany participant to a congregate site.

• Title VI Caregiver Program will include caregiver support services directed toward informal, unpaid family caregivers of adults 55 years and over. Grandparents and relative caregivers, age 55 and older, who are the primary caregivers of a child not more than 18 years old because the biological or adoptive parents are unable or unwilling to serve as the primary caregiver of the child. They must be related to the child by blood, marriage, or adoption and live with the child.

• American Association of Retired Persons (AARP): Smart Driver courses offered as part of adult programming

• Adult programs include social, educational, fitness, and enrichment opportunities such as classes, events, and community activities for adults and older adults

• Kosher Meals on Wheels: Offered through the Capp Center Saint Paul in partnership with Jewish Family Service of Saint Paul and Sholom Alliance, providing kosher meal delivery in Saint Paul.

• American Association of Retired Persons (AARP): Smart Driver courses offered as part of adult programming

• Adult programs include social, educational, fitness, and enrichment opportunities such as classes, events, and community activities for adults and older adults

• Kosher Meals on Wheels: Offered through the Capp Center Saint Paul in partnership with Jewish Family Service of Saint Paul and Sholom Alliance, providing kosher meal delivery in Saint Paul.

Provides home delivered meals. Meals are available Monday through Friday and may be ongoing or temporary for someone recovering from illness or surgery. Frozen meal options are also available to add to the delivery.

• Clubs including book club, Happy Hands knitting club, women's club, bridge, Chan-O-Laires chorus group, and woodcarving group

• Congregate dining

• Cribbage

• Day trips and extended overnight trips

• Foot care clinic

• Health education classes

• Health insurance assistance

• Mahjongg

• Meals on Wheels

• Monthly catered afternoon meals (Lunch Box Special) with entertainment

• Nintendo Wii

• One-on-one computer assistance

• Passport to the World Programs (lunch and education on various countries)

• Technology classes

Hot meals are delivered Monday through Friday in the City of Aitkin. Frozen meals are delivered in Aitkin County every other week. This service allows seniors in rural locations access to health prepared meals.

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications: Provides assistance with applications for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a county-run, state-supervised Federal program that helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for sound nutrition and well-balanced meals. The program issues electronic food support benefits that can help stretch your household food budget.

• Information and Referral: Offers information on resources of local food shelves

• Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) Applications: The program is designed to provide healthy and nutritious food products each month at no cost to eligible individuals over the age of 60. Helps eligible individuals apply for the program.

• Second Harvest Heartland: Provides a free food distribution program to those in need

• Prairie Five Meals Program: Offers congregate dining, home delivered, and frozen meals serving 34 communities in the area. Frozen meals are available for weekend, holiday, emergency and rural delivery. The program promotes health and independent living in the senior population through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation.

• Clubs including book club, Happy Hands knitting club, women's club, bridge, Chan-O-Laires chorus group, and woodcarving group

• Congregate dining

• Cribbage

• Day trips and extended overnight trips

• Foot care clinic

• Health education classes

• Health insurance assistance

• Mahjongg

• Meals on Wheels

• Monthly catered afternoon meals (Lunch Box Special) with entertainment

• Nintendo Wii

• One-on-one computer assistance

• Passport to the World Programs (lunch and education on various countries)

• Technology classes

Provides hot, nutritious home delivered meals. Each meal meets 1/3 of the daily recommended nutrients containing dessert, fruits, protein, starch, and vegetables. Special diets available.

Midday meal served to seniors 60 and older, and to disabled or homebound individuals. Home-Delivered:

• Call by noon the day before meal is needed
• Call by noon on Tuesday for weekend frozen meals on wheels (delivered on Thursday)

Prepares and delivers free, medically tailored meals and nutrition counseling to Minnesota residents diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, cancer, MS, ALS, ESRD, CHF, and COPD. Additional meals for caregivers and dependents available as needed.

Offers an outreach center. Services provided:

• Community resource information

• Meals on Wheels program

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications: Provides assistance with applications for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a county-run, state-supervised Federal program that helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for sound nutrition and well-balanced meals. The program issues electronic food support benefits that can help stretch your household food budget.

• Information and Referral: Offers information on resources of local food shelves

• Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) Applications: The program is designed to provide healthy and nutritious food products each month at no cost to eligible individuals over the age of 60. Helps eligible individuals apply for the program.

• Second Harvest Heartland: Provides a free food distribution program to those in need

• Prairie Five Meals Program: Offers congregate dining, home delivered, and frozen meals serving 34 communities in the area. Frozen meals are available for weekend, holiday, emergency and rural delivery. The program promotes health and independent living in the senior population through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation.

• Advocacy and outreach on elder services

• Congregate meals for dine-in and home delivery of meals

• Educational conferences

• Elder activities

• Elder/Disabled Energy Program (electric and gas service payment assistance)

• Information and referrals

• Social nutrition

Provides a hot, nutritious noon meal to older adults, adults with disabilities, or adults who are terminally ill and with limited mobility who are unable to prepare their own meals. Meals are provided by local caterers and delivered by volunteers. Program Coordinators will meet individually with client to discuss nutrition and other services available to aid them in remaining independent. Volunteer opportunities available to drive for Meals on Wheels.

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications: Provides assistance with applications for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a county-run, state-supervised Federal program that helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for sound nutrition and well-balanced meals. The program issues electronic food support benefits that can help stretch your household food budget.

• Information and Referral: Offers information on resources of local food shelves

• Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) Applications: The program is designed to provide healthy and nutritious food products each month at no cost to eligible individuals over the age of 60. Helps eligible individuals apply for the program.

• Second Harvest Heartland: Provides a free food distribution program to those in need

• Prairie Five Meals Program: Offers congregate dining, home delivered, and frozen meals serving 34 communities in the area. Frozen meals are available for weekend, holiday, emergency and rural delivery. The program promotes health and independent living in the senior population through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation.

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include:

• Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP

• Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education

• Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults

• Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation.

• Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

Provides a nutritious meal delivered to ones home by volunteer drivers within Blue Earth city limits.