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Senior Meal Programs
Service Definition
Home Delivered Meals
This program is for qualified individuals to
receive meals in their home. The meal must comply with the Dietary
Guidelines for Americans and provides a minimum of 33 and 1/3 percent
of the current daily Recommended Dietary Allowances as established
by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council
of the National Academy of Sciences.
How Service is Provided
Home Delivered Meals: Area Agency on Aging funds two home
delivered meal (HDM) programs located in Wasco and Sherman Counties.
The home delivered meal program is designed to provide nutritious
meals along with safety checks for their clients. Meals are delivered
to cover one meal per day seven days per week. Dedicated volunteers
deliver the meals to eligible home bound individuals. The program
that delivers five days per week provides a personal contact that
helps to assure the client is safe. Some drivers have been volunteer
drivers for years. If the volunteer driver notices a difference
in the client, they inform the appropriate people to follow up on
any concerns they might have. Volunteer drivers are always needed.
To learn more about becoming a volunteer, call one of the numbers
listed below. Eligibility for home delivered meals is determined
by in-home assessments completed on an annual basis. Anyone over
the age of sixty that is home bound (i.e. does not leave their home
in regular circumstances), and cannot prepare three meals a day
on their own, is eligible to receive home delivered meals.
These are the services currently provided through AAA and these
contracts:
- The Dalles Meals on Wheels in Wasco County
located in rented space in the Mid-Columbia Senior Center in The
Dalles delivering hot meals Monday through Friday and provide
frozen meals for the weekends. Call 541-298-8333.
- Sherman County Senior Center in Sherman County
located in Moro delivering seven frozen meals one day per week.
Call 541-565-3434.
Service Definition
Congregate Meals
These meals are provided to an eligible participant
at a nutrition site, senior center or some other congregate setting
which complies with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and provides
a minimum of 33 and 1/3 percent of the current daily Recommended
Dietary Allowances (RDA) established by the Food and Nutrition Board
of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
How Service is Provided
Congregate meals:
The Area Agency on Aging provides Older American Act dollars via
contracts and operates three sites in-house. Meals are provided
to older adults sixty years of age and older on a donation basis
(suggested donation amounts vary between sites). People under the
age of 60 are welcome to eat at the sites and are required to pay
the full cost of the meal, which varies with each meal site. Area
Agency on Aging contracts with:
- Mt. Hood Senior Meals in Hood River County
located at the Mt. Hood Towne Hall building in Mt. Hood. Volunteers
prepare and serve the meals every Thursday. Other services provided
at this site include socialization, volunteer opportunities, guest
speakers who present information of interest to older adults,
nutrition education, cards, and puzzles. To find out more about
what is offered at this site, call 541-354-1604.
- The Dalles Meals on Wheels in Wasco County
is located in a rented space in the Mid-Columbia Senior Center
in The Dalles. Paid staff and volunteers prepare and serve meals
Monday – Friday (except holidays). Other services provided at
this site include socialization, volunteer opportunities, guest
speakers who present information of interest to older adults,
white elephant Bingo, and nutrition education. To find out more
about what is offered at this site, call 541-298-8333;
- Sherman County Senior Center in Sherman County
is located in the Sherman County Senior Center in Moro. Paid staff
and volunteers prepare and serve meals Monday – Friday (except
holidays). Other services provided at this site include socialization,
volunteer opportunities, guest speakers who present information
of interest to older adults, cards, and nutrition education. To
find out more about what is offered at this site, call 541-565-3434;
- Gilliam County has two meal sites. The Arlington
site serves every Tuesday and is located in the Masonic Lodge
in Arlington. The Condon site serves every Thursday and is located
in the United Church of Christ basement in Condon. Paid staff
and volunteers prepare and serve meals. Other services provided
at this site include socialization, volunteer opportunities, guest
speakers who present information of interest to older adults,
and nutrition education. To find out more about what is offered
at this site, call the main office at 541-384-2114;
- Pioneer Potlatch has sites in Cascade Locks
(serves every Wednesday) in Hood River County located on the Port
Property Building B; Dufur located at the Methodist Church (serves
every Wednesday), Tygh Valley located in the Tygh Valley Community
Center (serves every Thursday), and Mosier located at the Mosier
Creek Terrace Apartment complex (serves every Monday and Wednesday),
in Wasco County; and Moro located in the basement of the Moro
Presbyterian Church (serves every Wednesday), in Sherman County.
Other services provided at this site include socialization, volunteer
opportunities, guest speakers who present information of interest
to older adults, and nutrition education. To find out more about
what is offered at these sites, call the main office at 541-298-4354.
- The Area Agency on Aging operates three sites
in-house located in Wheeler County. The sites are located in Fossil
at the Glover Memorial Center (serves every Wednesday), Spray
located in the Spray Grange (serves every Thursday), and Mitchell
located in the Mitchell Community Center (serves every Friday).
Other services provided at this site include socialization, volunteer
opportunities, guest speakers who present information of interest
to older adults, and nutrition education. To find out more about
what is offered at this site, call 1-888-316-1362.
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