Meals On Wheels
It's more than just a meal...
We've expanded our program to serve you better!
Horizons Meals On Wheels helps older adults and persons with disabilities meet their daily nutritional needs. Delivering hot, fresh restaurant-quality food 7 days a week, Horizons Meals On Wheels offers ready-to-eat meals in addition to onsite-made frozen meals, breakfast bags and customizable nutritional plans covering every meal of the day. Staff and volunteers who make deliveries provide safety checks, as well as emotional and social support.
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• Horizons Meals On Wheels delivers over 400,000 meals annually, each one made locally in Horizons’ kitchen. 300,000 meals are delivered to older adults and persons with disabilities; and another 100,000 are served to children in Head Start preschool classrooms.
• In 2010, volunteers put in over 10,000 hours of service delivering meals. Over 25 volunteers work with the Meals On Wheels staff each day to deliver more than 400 lunches in the Cedar Rapids/Marion area.
• Recently, Meals On Wheels rolled out a new Choices Menu, allowing clients to choose between two entrée options for their hot lunch.
• Reaching beyond home delivered meals, our congregate meal sites offer social opportunities and nutritious meals to the communities of Amana, Belle Plaine, Blairstown, Marengo, Norway and Victor.
• Horizons has also teamed up with Rinderknecht Associates and local AmeriCorps programs to plant a vegetable garden. Fresh produce harvested from that garden is distributed to Meals On Wheels clients.
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ELIGIBILITY
Anyone over the age of 60 and the spouse of the person, regardless of age, can benefit from Meals On Wheels. Persons with disabilities, regardless of age, may also be eligible.
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“I owe my life to Meals On Wheels. When I started with Meals On Wheels in 2008, I weighed 94 pounds, recovering from pneumonia and Staph infection at Mercy Hospital. Doctors put me in the category ‘High Risk’. A social worker at Mercy Hospital recommended Meals On Wheels for me when I was discharged. As a result of their nutritious and delicious food, I now weigh almost 110 pounds. I am happy, my children are happy and the doctors are happy. And the best part is I am still living in my own home due to Meals On Wheels.”
-Betty, Meals On Wheels client
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