Y 4. Ag4/2:189 HUNGER AND NUTRITION: CHAL- 57-599 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-039021-4 SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman THOMAS J. DOWNEY, New York IKE SKELTON, Missouri ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia JIM JONTZ, Indiana JERRY F. COSTELLO, Illinois HARLEY O. STAGGERS, JR., West Virginia FRANK PALLONE, JR., New Jersey JOLENE UNSOELD, Washington PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon JOHN LEWIS, Georgia WAYNE OWENS, Utah ROBERT A. ROE, New Jersey GERRY E. STUDDS, Massachusetts MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey, JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina DICK NICHOLS, Kansas JIM NUSSLE, Iowa Andrew P. Hornsby, Deputy Administrator, Food Stamp Program, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; accompanied by Jan Lilja, Director, Office of Analysis and Evaluation, Food and Nutrition Serv- ice, USDA Mary Ellen Natale, Staff Attorney, Food Research and Action Center, Wash- ington, DC; accompanied by Ed Cooney, Deputy Director, Food Research Barbara Millen Posner, Dr.P.H., R.D., Assistant Director for Research and Development, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA Alan L. Balsam, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director of Elderly Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Executive Office of Health and Human Serv- ices, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Robert Schap, Executive Director of Central Maryland Meals on Wheels, and Legislative Chair of the National Association of Meals Programs... Julie A. Clouse, Member of the Board of the National Association of Nutri- tion and Aging Services Programs, and Project Officer of the National "Final Results of the Elderly Programs Study: Evaluation of the Food Assist- ance Needs of the Low-Income Elderly and their Participation in USDA cans. Nutritonal checklist. Supplemental material submitted by Barbara Millen Posner: "Service Innovations in the Elderly Nutrition Program: Strategies for Meeting Unmet Needs," by Alan L. Balsam, Ph.D., and Beatrice Lorge "Developing a Continuum of Community Nutrition Services: Massachu- setts Elderly Nutrition Programs," by Alan Balsam, MS, MPH, RD, "Serving Elders in Greatest Social and Economic Need: The Challenge to the Elderly Nutrition Program," by Alan L. Balsam, Ph.D., and Bea- Judith L. Dodd, MS, RD, President, American Dietetic Association, Chica- Daphne A. Roe, Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University, prepared Dick Verville, American Society for Clinical Nutrition/American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, letter and attachments, including the prepared statement of Harry L. Green, M.D., President-Elect, The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc., before the House Appro- |