Meals on Wheels

Whether you’re eight or eighty, eating well-balanced meals rich in vitamins and minerals is very important to your health.

Sometimes it’s difficult to shop for, cook or even care about the foods we eat. We may be recovering from an illness, be homebound, or unable to shop or cook.

Meals on Wheels is a service designed to help eligible seniors and others meet their nutritional needs during such challenging times.

Availability of Meals on Wheels:
Throughout Windham and Windsor counties: The following areas offer hot meals 5 days a week with frozen meals available for weekends and holidays:

  • Bellows Falls
  • Brattleboro/Vernon/Guilford
  • Ludlow
  • Saxtons River
  • Springfield
  • Westminster
  • White River Junction
  • Windsor
  • Woodstock

In most other towns, meals are available on a more limited basis. Please call for information about meals in your town. 1-800-642-5119

Eligibility Guidelines: A person is eligible for Meals on Wheels if she/he is 60 years or more and is affected by either one of the following:

  • Has a temporary or permanent incapacity due to illness or advancing age
  • Is nutritionally at risk—cannot always purchase adequate food or cannot prepare meal

Or is under 60 years and meets any of the following:

  • Is the spouse of an eligible participant
  • Has a disability and resides with a Meals on Wheels recipient
  • Has a disability and is referred by the Vermont Center for Independent Living

Delivery: Meals are delivered by volunteers from the community around the noon hour.

Donations: The Meals on Wheels program depends on participant contributions to help support the service. Voluntary contributions are encouraged although no eligible person will be denied for lack of ability to contribute.

Meals on Wheels are brought to you by Senior Solutions—the Council on Aging of Southeastern Vermont, Inc. in conjunction with Senior Centers, community meal sites and some restaurants in Windham and Windsor counties.

We want to provide you with the best possible service. If at any time you are dissatisfied with the nutrition services provided, we encourage you to contact our agency. Assessments are done annually to assure your needs are being met.
1-800-642-5119

 

Comments are closed.