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Council on Aging details Meals on Wheels wait list and operating shortfalls to council
Summary
The local Council on Aging described service demand, funding sources and an unmet waitlist for home-delivered meals; the director urged continued local support and noted a recent state funding increase.
The director of the local Council on Aging told the City Council on Tuesday that her agency is serving more home-delivered meals than its federal and state funding support covers and that 302 seniors remain on a wait list for Meals on Wheels.
Carol Whip, who identified herself as director of the Council on Aging, said the nonprofit — incorporated in 1977 — serves people aged 60 and older across the parish and relies on a mix of federal Title III funds and state dollars administered by the governor’s Office of Elderly Affairs.
“We deliver…we were contracted for 160 meals a day.…
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