QUESTION
How does the NYC Department for the Aging ensure that meals for older adults are nutritious, culturally competent, and within reimbursement limits?
1:25:07
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The NYC Department for the Aging has a robust nutrition unit working closely with providers to ensure meals for older adults are nutritious, culturally competent, and stay within reimbursement limits.
- The nutrition unit collaborates with the Office for the Aging (OAC) on nutritional services, including meal preparation and cost management.
- The team focuses on cultural competency, ensuring meals meet cultural preferences while maintaining nutritional value.
- Ongoing communication is maintained between the department's programs and the nutritionist unit for continuous improvement.
Crystal Hudson
1:25:07
Do you do any regular surveying or consultation, I would say, with providers to ensure they're able to provide nutritious and culturally competent mills that older adults actually like while keeping within the meal reimbursement limits.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
1:25:20
We have a very robust nutrition unit nutritionist unit who works very closely with the OAC around nutritional service is
Gale Brewer
1:25:33
Mhmm.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
1:25:33
Both not only in the preparation of meals, in cost management of meals, but also in terms of cultural competency and they try to do, you know, some comparison of what the nutritional value would be based on what the cultural preferences.
1:25:51
So there is a robust ongoing communication and with our programs and the nutritionist unit.