---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3030d–21"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3030d–21"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3030d-21"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Programs for Older Americans"
  - "Subchapter III — Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging"
  - "Part C — Nutrition Services"
---

# §3030d–21. Purposes


The purposes of this part are—

- (1) to reduce hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition;
- (2) to promote socialization of [older individuals](/usc/42/3002.md?p=40); and
- (3) to promote the health and well-being of [older individuals](/usc/42/3002.md?p=40) by assisting such individuals to gain access to nutrition and other [disease prevention and health promotion services](/usc/42/3002.md?p=14) to delay the onset of adverse health conditions resulting from poor nutritional health or sedentary behavior.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–73, title III, § 330, as added Pub. L. 109–365, title III, § 312, Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2547; amended Pub. L. 116–131, title I, § 106(2), Mar. 25, 2020, 134 Stat. 244.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2020—Par. (1). Pub. L. 116–131 substituted “, food insecurity, and malnutrition” for “and food insecurity”.