12 CCR 2510-1-10.412.1 - Nutrition Services (Home Delivered) Eligibility [Rev. eff. 2/1/16]

All adults age sixty and older and their self-identified spouses shall be eligible for 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. Priority may be given to emergency requests for older adults who are newly homebound or temporarily incapacitated.

A. In addition to general eligibility requirements, an older adult receiving home delivered meals shall be homebound.

B. Home delivered meals may be provided as supplemental services under the National Family Caregiver Support Program Title III, as defined at Section 10.120 "Definitions", E, to persons aged sixty and over who are either care recipients (as well as their self-identified spouses of any age) or caregivers. These meals are also NSIP eligible.

C. If included in the AAA Area Plan and policies for nutrition service providers, home delivered meals may be made available to older adults who are geographically isolated when a congregate site is not reasonably available as an alternative, including:

1. Homebound, disabled dependents under sixty years of age, residing with a homebound or geographically isolated older adult must be assessed as homebound;

2. Spouses of homebound or geographically isolated home delivered meal recipients, or,

3. Individuals providing volunteer services in the home delivered meal program.

Notes

12 CCR 2510-1-10.412.1

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