Continuing a series of posts on Older Americans Act (OAA) Programs, this post will give an overview of the goals and services of the Senior Nutrition Program. Next week, I hope to continue with part 2 that covers some of the funding history and current issues specific to the program.
The first installment, Older Americans Act Primer was posted last week to give a high level overview of the OAA and its goals.
As I said last week, my intention with this series is to increase awareness of the services available to seniors within their communities. This serves two purposes, an altruistic one of helping people receive some very needed services as well as my selfish and subversive intent of increasing the visibility of the government services that are specific to SENIORS as an interest group.
Seniors vote and we know (statistically speaking) that a majority of them vote for Republicans. I have the hope that if seniors understand how their benefits are receiving stealth cuts from the people they keep electing to office, it may effect their choices in future elections.
OAA programs are not an exciting subject, its dry, bureaucratic stuff. But they really do make differences in people lives.