Improving Lives, One Meal at a Time

Improving Lives, One Meal at a Time

Home Delivery Program

Meals on Wheels is a program that delivers meals Monday through Friday to individuals at home who are unable to prepare their meals. Because they are housebound, many of the recipients are the elderly.

Research shows that home-delivered meal programs significantly improve diet quality, increase nutrient intake, reduce food insecurity, and improve the quality of life among the recipients. The programs also reduce government expenditures by reducing the need for recipients to use hospitals, nursing homes, or other expensive community-based services.

Frozen meals are delivered during the week Saturday and Sunday from the Ossipee site, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Moultonborough. Whenever there’s bad weather, we try to prepare as best we can, and we deliver what is called a “blizzard bag” that contains a shelf stable meal that they can utilize whenever we can’t deliver. 

Congregate Meals 

Congregate Meals are Monday through Friday at the Ossipee Site and Monday through Thursday at our Moultonborough Site, and are served at Noon. All seniors 60 and over are welcome. We also have a Wednesday congregate in the town of Sandwich, and a seasonal congregate in Tamworth during warmer months on Wednesdays. 

We host events such as bingo every Monday and cribbage every Thursday at our Ossipee site!

 

What Areas Do We Serve?

Meals on Wheels serves the towns Ossipee, Center Ossipee, West Ossipee, Water Village, Tamworth, South Tamworth, Chocorua, Wakefield, Union, Sanbornville, Granite, Effingham, Moultonborough, Sandwich, and Freedom.

 

Eligibility for Meals on Wheels

Please fill out the information below to submit a Meals on Wheels referral for a prospective client. They must live in Ossipee, Center Ossipee, West Ossipee, Water Village, Tamworth, South Tamworth, Chocorua, Wakefield, Union, Sanbornville, Granite, Effingham, Moultonborough, Sandwich, or Freedom. The potential client must also meet the following requirements to be eligible to receive meals from OCC.

If prospective client is over 60 years old, No Income Requirement, and one of the following must apply:

  • Limited capacity to prepare meals without assistance
  • Limited ability to leave their residence
  • Unable to consume meals at Congregate Dining due to physical, emotional, or mental difficulties, or limited desire for social interactions

If prospective client is under 60 years old, all of the following must apply:

  • Homebound, as defined by the Bureau of Adult & Aging Care 
  • Disabled or with Chronic Illness
  • Under income limits
  • Doctor’s Note
  • Limited Capacity to prepare meals without assistance.

Bureau of Adult & Aging Care: an individual who is unable to leave home without difficulty because of chronic illness (chronic illness can be physical, mental, or emotional) or disability.

Do you know of anyone interested in Meals on Wheels or would you like to join? Click below to fill out an Intake Form!

Fill out a Meals On Wheels Intake Form by clicking HERE!

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