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JOURNAL OF APPLIED GERONTOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 587-606Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0733464810376512
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food insecurity; nutrition risk; Older Americans Act Nutrition Program; unmet needs
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This study documents the size of unmet needs for Older Americans Act Nutrition Program (OAANP) and characteristics of program participants and waitlisted people based on the data from the Georgia client database systems. About 60% of those who requested the OAANP service between July and early November, 2008 (n = 4,952) were on waitlists. Waitlisted people, especially those on the Home-Delivered Meals (HDM) waitlist, were more likely to report poorer sociodemographic characteristics, poorer self-reported health status, food insecurity, and nutritional risk. Requesting HDM was the foremost significant factor associated with unmet needs. Other race/not disclosing race information and living alone also increased the odds of being on the waitlists. There is a critical unmet need for the OAANP in Georgia, especially among those targeted by the Older Americans Act and requesting HDM. Federal and state policy makers, administrators, and program providers should better understand and meet the need of nutritionally vulnerable older Georgians.
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