CT HB05231

Area agencies on aging must distribute nutritional risk assessment surveys to older persons, collect them, and report individual and average nutritional risk assessment scores for each of the five elderly planning and service areas to the Department of Aging and Disability Services.

The Department of Aging and Disability Services must evaluate the method used to allocate funding for elderly nutrition services based on elderly population data from the most recent United States census and average and individual nutritional risk assessment scores.

The department must solicit information and recommendations from elderly nutrition program providers for consideration in the funding allocation evaluation.

By July 1, 2023, the department must report to the General Assembly committees on aging, appropriations, and human services regarding collected data, meals on wheels provider reimbursement rates, provider administrative expenses, providers that reduced deliveries due to inadequate reimbursement, and recommended funding allocation changes.

Providers in the department's elderly nutrition program must annually provide the department with data on service levels and costs.