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Elderly Services and Nutrition Program
The ESNP is that portion of our program which operates the Council on Aging's nine senior centers.
Our senior centers are places where people 60 years old or older -- and their spouses -- can come to meet other seniors, take part in activities, attend educational programs, play games, and take trips -- but many consider the main function of the centers to be the hot noon lunches served there.
The menus we use are prepared by a licensed dietician, and each meal meets one third of the USDA Daily Requirements for adults. Lunch is served at each of our centers at 11:30 a.m. Anyone who wishes to attend lunch needs to contact the center director by 11:00 the day before, so that a lunch can be ordered from our central kitchen for them.
In conjunction with these congregate meals, each of our centers also operates a "meals on wheels" program in its community. Almost all of our meals-on-wheels clients receive the same hot meals that are served at the centers, though we also deliver frozen meals once a week to a handful of clients who live too far out for us to serve on a daily basis.
Anyone in our service area who is 60 years old or older, homebound, and has no reliable means of obtaining lunch is eligible to receive meals on wheels. There are no income requirements. Contact the local senior center.
The centers also have vans that can provide transportation to our participants: to the center and home again; shopping; and to the doctor, among other destinations.
We do not charge for any services performed through the senior centers, however we gratefully accept all donations.