Overview:

This module discovers how to make meals eaten alone more pleasurable and ways to use special meals to expand friendships and build social support.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will show knowledge change by demonstrating one of the following as a result of participating in this module:

Session 1:	Identifying at least one way, new to them, to create more meaningful and pleasurable meals.
Session 2:	Discussing at least one reason why it is important to maintain social contacts as well as make new friends.
Session 3:	Discussing at least one way to plan for and host a small gathering or party as a way to use meals to expand friendships.
Session 4:	Developing a personal plan (ways) to lower their nutritional risk.

Participants will show behavior change by demonstrating one of the following as a result of participating in this module:

• How they have assumed responsibility for building their own social support and for their own health and nutritional needs.
• How they have completed their personal plan to lower their nutritional risk.

Module 8: Mixing Medications & Foods