Low-income seniors throughout the state aren’t getting sufficient to eat, and lots of don’t have entry to recent vegetables and fruit. Half of Indiana seniors report having troubles maintaining a healthy diet, which causes elevated danger of continual ailments and decreased quality-of-life.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Defend Basis at the moment awarded a $4.4 million Connecting Older Hoosiers with Healthful Meals grant to the IAAAA Schooling Institute, Inc. Kristen LaEace, CEO of Indiana Affiliation of Space Businesses on Ageing and the IAAAA Schooling Institute, and Tauhric Brown, president and CEO of CICOA Ageing & In-House Options, accepted the grant. CICOA is the biggest of the state’s 15 space companies on growing old. The organizations present companies to assist low-income seniors stay as wholesome and independently as potential.
“We’re grateful for this beneficiant grant from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Defend Basis to assist us get recent produce to seniors who’re residing in areas the place they both can’t afford recent produce or they stay in a meals desert, the place it’s merely not accessible,” Brown stated. “This grant will go a good distance towards serving to our most weak residents get the vitamins they should stay their greatest lives.
Following the announcement of the grant at Shelby Senior Companies, Brown introduced findings from a 2021 Neighborhood Evaluation Survey for Older Adults, which confirmed a regarding pattern in Indiana: About half of older adults reported an absence of accessible, reasonably priced high quality meals.
Every of the world companies on growing old will associate with native meals banks, meals pantries and producers to acquire recent produce, which shall be supplied to taking part seniors at senior meal websites or as a part of house delivered meals. Seniors additionally will obtain info and recommendations on making ready wholesome meals.
“This grant will assist tackle meals insecurity in Indiana and is only one a part of as much as $30 million our guardian firm’s basis plans to take a position over the following three years to assist meals as medication packages throughout the U.S.,” stated Beth Keyser, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Defend in Indiana. “As a corporation, we take a broad, holistic view of well being and which means working with neighborhood companions to handle starvation and different social components that forestall people from residing a wholesome life.”
Connecting Older Hoosiers with Healthful Meals is a collaboration among the many space companies on growing old, Feeding Indiana’s Hungry, its 11 meals financial institution members and the Indiana College Heart for Ageing Analysis (IUCAR).
For extra info:
Kristen LaEace
IAAAA Schooling Institute Inc.
O: +1 317-205-9201
Tony Felts
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Defend Basis
O: +1 317-439-6751
Dana Robinson
CICOA Ageing & In-House Options
M: +1 317-514-5126