Meals on Wheels program initiative is announced
Private duty agencies supplying meals for their clients might have a breakfast option through Meals on Wheels.
The U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) in Washington, DC, and General Mills Foodservice (GMF) in St. Charles, IL, are teaming up to provide vulnerable elders with a "Morning Meal on Wheels" to supplement the daily meal already delivered to their door, announced Donna E. Shalala, secretary of the Washington, DC-based Department of Health and Human Services.
Benefits of breakfast to be tested
Through this partnership, AoA and GMF will collaborate to establish up to 20 model projects across the country aimed at testing the benefits of providing a cost-effective second meal, in the form of breakfast, to homebound older individuals participating in the Older Americans Act home-delivered nutrition program.
General Mills, a leading manufacturer of cereal and other foods, also will assist in creating and disseminating training materials for senior nutrition providers nationwide and will help in the collection of critical data about the meal recipients and their special needs.
The demand for home-delivered meals has grown. Since 1980, home-delivered meals have increased from 22% to 49% of total meals served through the Elderly Nutrition Program. Forty-one percent of the nation’s home-delivered meals program have waiting lists.
For more information, call (202) 401-4541.
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