Home delivered meals are intended to help maintain and improve
the health of impaired home-bound older persons by providing
nutritionally balanced meals served in the home by volunteers.
Home delivered meals help to enable impaired older adults
to remain at home as long as possible and facilitate the
discharge of older persons from hospitals and care providing
facilities.
Home bound is defined as being confined to the home due to
reason of illness of incapacitating disability. The target
population for home delivered meals is persons 60 years of
age or older who are physically or mentally unable to obtain
food or prepare meals, who have no responsible person who
is able and willing to perform this needed service, and who
are
unable to participate in the congregate nutrition program
because of physical or mental impairment. He spouse of an eligible
older person is also eligible to receive a home delivered
meal.
Cost of this program is $1.00 donation/contribution per meal.
For more information concerning the Home - Delivered Meals
program or to volunteer to deliver meals in Camden County,
please call Michaelene Sawyer at 252-338-1919 x 248.
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