Success StorySenior Nutrition Activities



Senior Nutrition Activities

Author: Cecelia Hostilo

Planning Unit: Trigg County CES

Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)

Plan of Work: A Healthier Trigg County

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

The Trigg County Senior Center is an Allied Community Services Agency that serves older adults by providing low cost lunches, social activities, and educational programming.  Each year funding to this valuable agency gets cut and they turn to the Trigg County Extension Service to help fill in the gaps that they can no longer porvide on their own.  The FCS agent and the SNAP para-professional make regular visits each month to provide health and nutrition lessons.  The ANR agent and SNAP para-professional work together to plant a community garden at the Center.  

The Senior Center is required by Allied Community Services to provide special programming during national Nutrition Month, which is March.  This year the FCS agent, the Trigg County Homemaker Food, Nutrtition, and Health chairperson, and other Homemaker volunteers worked together to plan and implement a Nutrition Fair for the Center.  The purpose of the Nutrtition Fair was to provide Seniors with nutrition information and healthy, easy-to-make, and affordable recipes that they can prepare at home with no cooking involved.  Four stations were set up that included a recipe tasting station, an information station, a "test your knowledge" station, and a station manned by the certified Diabetes Educator with the Pennyrile District Health Department.  

24 senior adults participated in the fair, which was 8 more than last year.  100% of participants completed the evaluation at the end of the event.  96% of those completing the survey said that the information provided was easy to understand and would help them with improving their eating habits and overall health.  63% said that they would use the recipes at home.  We hope the nutrition fair continues to grow each year. 






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