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Causes: Food, Food Programs
Mission: To provide a wellness check, nutritious meal, and joy to our elderly, disabled, and veterans in need through our Meals on Wheels and other programs.
Target demographics: senoirs who can not prepare food for themselves
Direct beneficiaries per year: 96,000 Seniors
Geographic areas served: Anoka County Minnesota
Programs: Impact services delivers nutritious meals and enable our neighbors to live independently. A wellness check-in to residents in the communities. We serve in anoka and hennepin counties. We serves elderly, disabled and other homebound neighbors throughout our community. Impact services has the ability to provide meals that meet dietary restrictions such as low sodium and diabetic specific meals, as well as others. Impact services works with those we serve in order to provide a meal that will be eaten and enjoyed by the individual. We listens to those receiving the service and caterers to their taste. As much as possible.
family aging education is a curriculum for aging-seniors and their loved ones to discuss the concerns that arise with the aging process. Providing seniors the opportunity to impart their desires to age with dignity. Impact services curriculum provides training in talking about aging and self guide manual to help familes answer the critical questions that arise with the aging process. This cirriculum allows the families to find a starting point for this difficult conversation. The questions provid
act on alzheimer's anoka is proud to be part of the statewide act collaboration. Act on alzheimer's fosters collective ownership and accountability in preparing minnesota for the personal,social and budgetary impact of alzheimer's disease and related dementias. No single organization owns,finances or control the initiative. The callaboration works toward five goals: 1. Identify and invest in promising approaches that reduce the cost and improve care. 2. Increase detection of alzheimer's disease