City Meals On Wheels: A Case Study

City meals on wheels is a Non- profit organization based in New York city. This Non-profit raises private funds to ensure no homebound elderly New Yorker goes without food. City meals on wheels is founded by Gael Greene (An American restaurant critic, author and novelist), and James beard (An American chef, cookbook author, teacher, columnist, and television personality). In 1981, after reading a newspaper article about homebound elderly New Yorkers who had nothing to eat on weekends and holidays, that’s when Greene, and Beard decided to begin city meals on wheels. The program began with a small group of volunteers serving Christmas dinners to 6,000 elders, which costed $35,000; to an organization who now serves over 2 million meals annually, to 18,414 clients (66% are women), with an average age of 82, and about 200 clients who are age 100 or older. …show more content…
NYS ranks 28th among all states for seniors at risk for hunger, and it’s projected that by 2025, there will be more than 4.4 million New Yorkers who are 60 years of age and over. For many seniors, it often comes down to a choice between paying the rent, the electric bill, purchasing prescriptions, or eating. “In a CNN poll, 30% of the people surveyed nationwide said that they were already cutting back on food and medicine a choice that almost certainly compromises their health and wellbeing (Jaret 2008). This type of living situation is commonly called “food insecurity”,and many of today’s seniors are considered to be food insecure, that’s why nonprofits such as city meals on wheels are important and can help to bridge that gap between the elderly and