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Home Delivered Meals
Are you having difficulty preparing meals? Are you no
longer able to go out to eat like you used to? Is there no one in the
household who can prepare a meal?
Home Delivered Meals may be a program that
can improve your nutrition, and, ultimately, your health.
The Mifflin-Juniata
Area Agency on Aging Inc. is a private nonprofit organization. The
Agency coordinates many programs and activities. The Home Delivered Meal
Program is one of the inhome programs designed to promote a healthy safe
lifestyle in your home.
What are Home
Delivered Meals?
Home Delivered Meals are meals sent
from the Area Agency on Aging to people age 60 and over who are not able
to prepare or obtain a nutritious meal. These meals are a geriatric diet
meaning they are low salt and low sugar.
Special diets such as no salt and
no sugar meals are not
available.
Home delivered meals
are delivered hot from local area Senior Centers up to five days a week.
Frozen and shelf-stable meals are also available to be used on days
when the Centers are not open.
Who is eligible to
receive Home Delivered Meals?
In addition to being
60 years of age or older, consumers must be determined to be in need of
meals delivered to the home. This means that you must be physically or
mentally unable to prepare a nutritious meal, attend a Senior Center, or
obtain a meal, for instance one prepared by another member of your
household. It is generally healthier to join others at a senior center or to keep active by
preparing meals. However, there are many instances when this is no
longer possible. In these cases, Home Delivered Meals can be a great
asset in keeping you healthy and independent.
How do I make arrangements for Home
Delivered Meals?
Home Delivered Meals,
as well as other in-home services, are based on your need for help. You
may call the Agency or have someone call on your behalf. If you
need help in your home, you will be assigned a care manager who will
arrange to meet with you and complete a thorough assessment to determine
what daily tasks are difficult for you to complete, and what help might
be needed. Based on the needs that you and your care manager identify, a
care plan will be developed, including meals, if appropriate.
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Your care manager will also do regular
reassessments to determine if your need for help has changed.
How can I help to be
sure I get my meals?
There are some
important things you can do to be sure meals arrive at your home when
you (and others) need them. Drivers may not leave a meal
unless they see you.
Be home when it's time for
your meal to arrive.
Call the Senior Center that
delivers your meal if you will be away.
Notify the Senior Center manager
or the person who delivers your meal if you have used all of your
frozen meals that arc to be used if the Center is closed.
Do I have to pay for the meals?
There is not a charge
for Home Delivered Meals. However, you will receive a statement. This is
not a bill. The letter explains the number of meals you received and the
cost to the Agency for these meals. An envelope will be included for
your use to make a contribution towards the cost of these meals.
Your donations
really do help!
What Is a "Special Gift" to
show appreciation for the help that the meals provide?
Government funding is
important but can not begin cover the cost for the thousands of meals
delivered each year. Everyone can help. Volunteers are needed to help
with the packaging and delivery of meals.
Also, special gifts
such as gifting or memorial gifts in honor or in memory of beloved
family are greatly appreciated. What a great way to show
appreciation for the help that was received, and to extend this help to
others who are in need!
Inquires may be made by
calling: 1-800-348-2277 or
(717)-242-0315
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