Analysis Of The Meals On Wheels Program

By providing healthy food and education to this population, it helps them to have a better and healthy life. In the article “A nurse’s guide to food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens”, the author mentions, “Individuals living food insecure rarely have access to foods recommended by the American Diabetes Association such as fresh fruits, vegetables, lean meats and whole grains. As nurses, we understand the importance of a healthy diet that allows our patients to maintain health and recover from illness or injury” (Greeg, 2014). As nursing students, we may be able to educate patients on what type of foods they should eat and avoid, but without a clear understanding of how their living situation plays a role in this, it can be hard to help

Volunteering is considered doing a good deed in which can help to implement development skills such as, meeting new people. Who knew that enjoying yourself and meeting new people will be such fun while volunteering your time and assistance in helping someone else? Preparing and packaging hot food to be delivered to senior citizens in the local community really made me feel like a did a great deed!

On Tuesday, October 3rd Monica Banks, a Wake Forest Divinity School student and a co-founder of New Communion, shared her experiences about her career/field of study and how it began to intermingle with food. Banks first began her career with a degree in business leadership and management and opening approximately 40 restaurant venues. After years of experience, she was looking for something more in life. After pursuing nursing she felt her calling was in the pastoral field and specifically surrounded food and poverty. As a second year student at Wake’s Divinity School, Banks was required to complete a group project, which led her the idea of the mobile pantry—now new communion. Banks felt such a passion for this project that she completed a grant application to United Way, which was eventually granted for the interfaith mobile food pantry. Banks took

Volunteering at a local soup kitchen has become an important activity that humbles me, having witnessed the difficulties this population faces. The Christian Medical Association Homeless Meals Program at Wayne State University School of Medicine will allow me to continue this type of community outreach.

Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston – Meals on Wheels is located at 3303 Main Street Houston, Texas 77002. Meals on Wheels (MOW) has an outstanding Client Concerns and Complaints Policy that is in full effect. Clients have their rights and their responsibility to report/address and concerns or complaints.

Every Wednesday and Friday, I served with the Last Call 4 Grace ministry. I helped provide meals for people who barely have a roof over their heads. First, the other volunteers and I formed an assembly line. Then, we packed food in to go boxes. On Wednesday of the first week, we packed pizza and brownies. On Friday, we packed hot dogs, potato chips, and cookies. During the following week, we packed burritos for the first day and rice with broccoli for the second. In addition to the main meal, we also provided bread, Halloween candy, and other sweets.

I visited Meals on Wheels of Syracuse located just outside of downtown. This is facility is part of a nationwide organization which provides nutrition to homebound seniors. Some of the challenges faced by this population and therefore by this facility are participant health concerns and limitations. Many of the seniors who are enrolled in this program have health problems which include hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol. These medical concerns have associated dietary considerations that must be accommodated. Meals on Wheels (MOW) staff must be notified of these concerns, and make appropriate dietary adjustments to the foods that will be served to these individuals. Along with medical concerns, many seniors also face physical limitations which may include difficulty eating, swallowing, and properly digesting foods. These issues must also be considered by MOW staff.

To help mitigate the threat of hunger that affects American families all over the country, The Salvation Army serves 60 million meals to anyone in need through its many soup kitchens, sit-down meal programs, food pantries and community gardens. As a fundamental part of this organization’s mission, these nutritional meals

Fortunately, there are several government programs available for families facing food insecurity. One example is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps low-income families afford nutrient rich foods and was formerly known as food stamps (“Supplemental Nutrtion…”, 2017). While this program aids individuals of all ages, there are also programs that are aimed at specific age groups. Another program is the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), which assists low-income elderly individuals above sixty years old and provides them with healthy foods (“Commodity Supplemental…”, 2017). On the other end of the spectrum, the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program allots federal grants for the health care and nutrition

The government provides food subsidies through the Commodity Supplemental Food Program - CSFP, for the elderly who are over 60 years of age and who are low income recipients in need of food to last them throughout the month. The food subsidies of fruit and vegetable intake protects against various common chronic diseases and protects those individuals who have low income that are at risk for poor dietary quality and for low consumption of fruits and vegetables (Herman, Harrison, & Afifi, 2008, p. 98.).

Your records were well organized and information was easy to locate. Participant’s seemed pleased with the services they are receiving from Rocky Mount Meals on Wheels. Several participants, on the home-delivered route, commented on how much they enjoyed the meals. One participant stated, “these meals keep me out

“Meals on Wheels” program in Rosemead city is a non-profit project that focusing on delivery food to aged, disabled and sick people’s home so that they can stay independent in their own home. This easy will discuss some improvements to this program in order to better meet the population’s needs.

Meals on Wheels programs are carefully regulated because of the potential danger of contamination of the food, so therefore “only licensed food preparers who meet both nutrition and sanitary standards set by state and federal regulations can provide the meals” (Wong & Meyer, 1993, p. 335). Meals must be maintained at the correct hot and cold temperatures and delivered within two hours of preparation. Typically, these programs use a centralized kitchen or shipping point. In Scioto County there are ten

I am currently fulfilling my passion as social work intern at Interfaith Ministries – Meals on Wheels (MOW) which is located on 3303 Main St. Houston TX. 77002. MOW has been around for many years assisting homebound older adults usually over the age of sixty with nutritional meals. MOW provides more than 4,300 meals in the Houston area. However MOW just recently expanded their routes to service some parts of Galveston. There are some eligible clients that qualify for additional meals such as breakfast, frozen weekend meals. I have noticed a higher population of Hispanic, African-American, and Caucasian clients, mostly in low poverty areas and have little-to-low income. There are many homebound clients that do not have social support and just

Foodies Forward believes that all families should have the right to fresh and nutritious food and be able to cook healthy yet affordable meals. Its mission is to educate and empower families of underserved communities in Central Texas through cooking. Foodies Forward aims to help families develop healthy eating habits promote family closeness, and inspire them to become agents of change by fighting food scarcity issues in their community. Cook Healthier is Foodies Forward’s weekly after-school program, which teaches students healthy eating practices as well as provides a space for them to cook healthy and affordable meals. Furthermore, students will take what they learn from the Cook Healthier program as well as groceries from the Foodies kitchen and share and practice cooking with their family.