To promote healthful aging, improve care, and broaden access to food and nutrition programs and services for older adults, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics supports which strategy?

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Expanding funding for home-based nutrition services would promote healthful aging by providing access to food and nutrition programs for older adults who may have difficulty leaving their homes. This strategy would also improve care by ensuring that older adults receive proper nutrition and support at home. Calculating the numbers of community-dwelling adults with dehydration, only training professional caregivers of homebound older adults, and providing culturally appropriate foods in health care centers may be helpful strategies, but they do not address the issue of access to food and nutrition programs for older adults who may be homebound or have limited mobility.

To Promote Healthful Aging, Improve Care, and Broaden Access to Food