Food for Thought

Proper nutrition plays a significant role in the health of all age groups but especially with the elderly. This episode illustrates good food choices and includes segments on food shopping and food preparation. It includes current up-to-date information regarding food handling and sanitation. Think leftovers and doggy bags!

Nutrition is crucial to your health, and eating wisely can sometimes help seniors to maintain their independence. Very often, as an older person's physical abilities decline and their social circle gets smaller, their nutrition goes downhill, too. Meals at senior centers, and programs that deliver meals to seniors who are home-bound, provide physical, as well as emotional, nourishment. It's not just nutrients that are the key to a healthy meal, it's also the social interaction, the human contact that happens when people share a meal. Eating with others gives seniors a chance to socialize; it's so important not to be isolated!