National Nutrition Services AlertACL has announced it will transition funding for a National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging from a grant to a contract in fiscal year 2020.Among other benefits, this award will centralize promising practices for nutrition services providers and make the information easy to access.
COVID-19 has highlighted the need for enhanced technical assistance and sharing of innovations, research, and promising practices in the field of nutrition related to older adults.This centralization also helps ACL to prepare to support the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health during the next update of federal dietary guidelines.