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Feeding seniors at home: high costs, lack of funds force meal delivery programs to try new production methods.

Publication: Nation's Restaurant News
Publication Date: 18-APR-05
Format: Online - approximately 806 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Home-delivered meal and congregate feeding programs for senior citizens around the country are struggling to survive the effects of a double whammy--decreased funding and rising gasoline prices--that also is having an impact on the companies that provide those meals.

Local and state agencies, and even the federal government, have been reducing the amount of money they are allocating for senior services, causing organizations such as Meals On Wheels to beg for more money from private donors and to ask seniors to help--when they can--pay for the cost of the meals.

"It is definitely a trying time for organizations like ours," said Enid Borden, chief executive of the Meals On Wheels Association of America. "When the economy is rough, not only...

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