By providing home-delivered meals, Meals on Wheels West effectively monitors the health and well being of the homebound person:
• decreases the demand for and cost of federal and local food programs
• lowers the number of medical facility emergency admittances for malnutrition and dehydration
• raises independence levels, thereby allowing other family members to remain employed, tax paying, contributing
members of the community
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By providing home-delivered meals, Meals on Wheels West effectively monitors the health and well being of the homebound person:
• decreases the demand for and cost of federal and local food programs
• lowers the number of medical facility emergency admittances for malnutrition and dehydration
• raises independence levels, thereby allowing other family members to remain employed, tax paying, contributing
members of the community
Our home-delivered meals program helps anyone, regardless of age, who is going through a life-style change due to age, ill health or a disability. It enables them to convalesce at home following surgery or hospitalization and enables all our clients to remain in their own home, living independently rather than going into assisted living or a nursing home.
Meals on Wheels West Delivers More Than a Meal:
• Supporting Veterans on the Homefront: In partnership with the VA of Greater LA and the local posts of the American Legion, Meals on Wheels West provides home-delivered meals to Veterans who have transitioned to housing and suffer from various disabilities and PTSD.
• Delivering More Than a Meal: Our home-delivered meal program reduces hunger & isolation and promotes independent living. During our daily meal delivery, our volunteer will do a Wellness Check along with becoming that daily social contact. The volunteer may report any concerns they observe to the office and referrals will be made.
• Community Connections: Our phone reassurance initiative connects our volunteers with our isolated and home-bound neighbors and friendships develop minimizing loneliness. Once again, we monitor our client’s overall health and wellness and will contact family members and/or make referrals.
• Heal Healthy at Home: Our transitional care program assists newly discharged hospital patients recover in the comfort of their home rather than a rehab facility. A national AARP study stated:
o 96% of healthcare workers reported that home-delivered meals improved their patients health
o 65% stated that hospital re-admissions decreased as a result of in-home rehab enabled by home-delivered meals.
• Food & Shelter: Collaborating with St. Joseph’s Center and other agencies, home-delivered meals are provided to the newly housed, formerly homeless, with mobility limitations due to chronic illness, disability or mental health issues.
• Keeping People & Pets Together: Designated donations allow us to provide food and limited veterinarian card for our client’s pets that, in turn, provide friendship and comfort to their home-bound owner.
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