12 CCR 2510-1-10.411.1 - Nutrition Services (Congregate) Eligibility [Rev. eff. 12/1/10]

All adults age sixty and older and their self-declared spouses shall be eligible for nutrition services. If resources are not available to serve all eligible older adults who request the services, preference and priority shall be given to those eligible persons of greatest social and economic need with particular attention to low-income older adults and older adults residing in rural areas.

In accordance with procedures established by the AAA, the following have the option to receive meals on the same basis as participating older adults if such an opportunity does not deprive any other older adult from receiving congregate meals:

A. Individuals with physical or mental disabilities or who are blind age eighteen (18) through fifty-nine (59), who reside in a housing facility primarily occupied by older adults and which has a congregate meal site funded by the Older Americans Act;

B. Individuals providing volunteer services in the congregate meal program;

C. Individuals with physical and/or mental disabilities or who are blind, age eighteen (18) through fifty-nine (59), who reside with and accompany older adults eligible under the Older Americans Act, to the congregate meal site.

Notes

12 CCR 2510-1-10.411.1

39 CR 01, January 10, 2016, effective 2/1/2016