Senior Center and Home Delivered
All 38 senior centers offer hot lunchtime meals served in the center and delivered to the home. Each meal provides one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of nutrition requirements for Seniors. Generally, Seniors in our area receive meals several days a week rather than everyday. This allows a maximum number of persons the opportunity to receive a nutritious meal along with the socialization, education and recreation benefits the senior center offers.

Homebound Seniors can receive a hot meal delivered to them on weekdays. In addition to the meal, the Senior enjoys the personal contact provided by the volunteer or employee who delivers the meal.

These meals are available to persons age 60 or older or the spouse of an eligible person. In addition, homebound seniors must be unable to attend the center due to physical or medical limitations and live within the delivery area of a senior center.

Education about nutrition and other topics is also provided to all Seniors receiving congregate or home delivered meals.

SARCOA Seniors received approximately 251,000 congregate meals and 112,000 home delivered meals in FY 2006 through the area senior centers.

Hungry to Help sponsored meal program
Many homebound elderly 60+ are too frail to shop for food and physically unable to prepare their own meals. Because of disabilities such as arthritis, blindness and heart disease, thousands of southeast Alabama seniors are hungry for your help.

With your donation, we can deliver nutritious meals to an elderly neighbor, a senior friend, or a disabled loved one who desperately needs help. Your donations may also be made in general or to a specific senior center or county.

In some cases the homebound elderly live in rural areas outside the delivery area of a senor center. Other times, the senior center may not have the staff or volunteers needed to deliver the number of meals required. For situations like these, the meal vendor offers weekly delivery of a 7 pack frozen meal directly to the senior's door.

If you would like to sponsor a particular homebound elderly person, please contact the senior center nearest to the person's home. The senior center will be able to assist you with information and enrollment. If you would like to become a meal sponsor in general, or need information about the nearest center, please contact our Hungry to Help coordinator at  the Area Agency On Aging, (334) 793-6843 or (800) 239-3507.