Hilda is an 85-year-old Hispanic senior citizen who suffers from arthritis, high blood pressure and diabetes type 1. When Hilda was younger, she enjoyed cooking, cleaning and working. As of now, Hilda is no longer able to do all these things because her advanced arthritis prevents her from going outside. Many senior citizens like Hilda are homebound, incapable of cooking or taking proper personal care. Homebound elders feel helpless because they are isolated from society and depend on home-based care programs. New York City has a “population of 8.4 million people, over 1.4 million New Yorkers are 60 years or older”(). Many of these people do not have the resources to support themselves and required the help of others to perform simple tasks.
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City Meals organizes multiples events throughout the year to combat the isolation the elderly experience. One of these events is called Friendly Visiting which match volunteers with participants near them in need of companionship. Friendly Visiting lasts for six months and it allows homebound elders to develop a friendship with the volunteer. City meals also have another program called Senior Script program. The Senior Script program allows volunteer and senior citizens to correspond to each other. These types of program encourage senior citizens to be more activate and be in a happier mood. City Meals is an asset to New York City’s elder population because it is improving their health status and enables them to be connected to the world.
As the number of people enrolling in the City Meals program grows, the financial need of the program increases. City Meals expects to grow exponentially since there are “1.4 million people who are over 60 in New York City and this number will continue to increase in the course of 30 years” (James, 12). City Meals requires more funding to continue operating and to serve more homebound elderly in New York City. The impact of this program is creating a change in New Yorkers’ lives by allowing them to age with …show more content…
If they live alone in a neighborhood that does not have supermarkets, they will have to rely more on food programs or family members to support themselves. In the article Accessing Food, Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi say that “In a typical African American block… the nearest grocery store is roughly twice the distance as the nearest fast food restaurant” (Gottlieb and Joshi, 41). The people living in these communities have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes. In such cases of economic inequality, race and ethnic also represent social tensions that are correlated to health to another level. The lack of ownership in this communities, due to fast food chains is causing the economic subordination of minorities. This is another stressor that contributes to the deteriorating health of minorities and their lack of participations in food
City Meals organizes multiples events throughout the year to combat the isolation the elderly experience. One of these events is called Friendly Visiting which match volunteers with participants near them in need of companionship. Friendly Visiting lasts for six months and it allows homebound elders to develop a friendship with the volunteer. City meals also have another program called Senior Script program. The Senior Script program allows volunteer and senior citizens to correspond to each other. These types of program encourage senior citizens to be more activate and be in a happier mood. City Meals is an asset to New York City’s elder population because it is improving their health status and enables them to be connected to the world.
As the number of people enrolling in the City Meals program grows, the financial need of the program increases. City Meals expects to grow exponentially since there are “1.4 million people who are over 60 in New York City and this number will continue to increase in the course of 30 years” (James, 12). City Meals requires more funding to continue operating and to serve more homebound elderly in New York City. The impact of this program is creating a change in New Yorkers’ lives by allowing them to age with …show more content…
If they live alone in a neighborhood that does not have supermarkets, they will have to rely more on food programs or family members to support themselves. In the article Accessing Food, Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi say that “In a typical African American block… the nearest grocery store is roughly twice the distance as the nearest fast food restaurant” (Gottlieb and Joshi, 41). The people living in these communities have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes. In such cases of economic inequality, race and ethnic also represent social tensions that are correlated to health to another level. The lack of ownership in this communities, due to fast food chains is causing the economic subordination of minorities. This is another stressor that contributes to the deteriorating health of minorities and their lack of participations in food