Our Issue / Our Solution
One in three Central Indiana seniors go hungry each year, and that number is on the rise
.A number of factors affect a senior’s ability to obtain or prepare food. Learn more about loved ones, friends and neighbors who are at risk for hunger, and how it impacts you.
Working together, we’re fighting hunger. Elders At the Table is a coalition of nonprofit organizations dedicated to ensuring that every Central Indiana senior has help getting nutritious meals every day. Learn more about our mission in the community. Continued here
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How you can help
Working together, we’re fighting hunger.
Elders At the Table is a coalition of nonprofit organizations dedicated to ensuring that every Central Indiana senior has help getting nutritious meals every day. Learn more about our mission in the community.
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Our Coalition
Elders At the Table is an unprecedented coalition united in our cause.
Elders At the Table is helping create a measurably stronger system of senior-serving meal and food providers in Central Indiana, which ultimately will lead to improved nutrition outcomes for seniors. Learn more about our coalition partners and our efforts.
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Advocacy
Study: State policies for seniors share the blame for Indiana's hungry seniors, click here to view.
EAT Coalition PSA's
Cost Saving Meal Options
Cost-Saving Meal Options for Seniors is the perfect booklet to help seniors learn about all the options they have to stretch their food dollar. It also lists all of the options they have for home delivered meals when illness or lack of transportation keeps them isolated In their homes.
Download a copy here or call the EAT office for copies at 317-464-5116.
What Can I Do About Senior Hunger?
PERSONALLY Your loved ones won’t tell you they don’t have enough money for food. When you visit the grocery and find “two for one deals”, buy enough for you and them and give them half. Let them know it was too good of a deal to pass up.
If you plant a vegetable garden, share. Fresh fruit and vegetables are hard for seniors to keep on hand if transportation is a problem.
Gifts of restaurant coupons, home delivered meals, “Fruit-of-the Month” clubs are great.
Especially for those living alone, take over a meal and eat it with them.
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