The Home Delivered Meals Program is designed to provide a well-balanced daily meal to homebound older adults who are unable to prepare adequate meals for themselves and have no other means for assuring healthful nutrition.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a hot meal is delivered to the older adult’s home. Tuesday and Thursday meals are a cold bag lunch delivered with the previous day’s hot meal. The delivery of meals may occur any time between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM.
Volunteers from the local senior center deliver the meals to the older adult’s home. Although this is a brief contact it does provide a check on the well being of the homebound individual.
The home delivered meal service is not a cost shared service.
Monetary donations can be made to the York County Area Agency on Aging.
Care managers need to complete an in-home assessment to determine eligibility for Home Delivered Meals.
Eligibility for Home Delivered Meals
To be eligible for Home Delivered Meals services an individual must be:
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A YorkCounty resident in a non-institutional setting.
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60 years of age or older.
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Have a physical, mental or emotional disability, which prohibits the individual from leaving his/her residence on a regular basis and/or prevents them from preparing a nutritious meal.
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Living alone or with someone who also meets the above criteria.