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Iowa Senior Hunger Summit
Working Together to Reduce
Senior Hunger in Iowa
Des Moines Botanical Garden
DuPont Room
September 11, 2019; 8:30-4:00
Registration opens at 7:30
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The summit will convene a wide variety of stakeholders to:
- Identify ways to strengthen senior nutrition programs and improve seniors’ access to healthy food.
- Better understand the health implications of chronic food insecurity.
- Identify opportunities to screen and intervene.
- Share best practices and successful community models for healthy aging and reducing food insecurity, especially in rural communities
Who should attend?
- Professionals and volunteers who work with vulnerable seniors
- Advocates working to reduce hunger or food insecurity
- Caregivers, medical providers, social workers, dietitians and health educators, community health workers
- People interested in creating communities that support healthy aging
Registration is open at Working Together to Reduce Senior Hunger in Iowa. The registration fee is $30, and will include lunch.
CEUs for dietitians requested.
Questions? Contact Doris Montgomery at the Iowa Department of Public Health: doris.montgomery@idph.iowa.gov or 515.661.7913
For more information and to register:
https://www.register.extension.iastate.edu/hungersummit/agenda
Sponsored by
Iowa Department of Public Health and the Iowa Department on Aging
Learn more about the Iowa Senior Hunger Partnership
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