Area Agency on Aging: Nutrition Services
Congregate Meals & Home Delivered Meals

The Bluegrass Area Agency on Aging and Independent Living supports Senior Centers and nutrition sites so that older adults have the opportunity to socialize with friends and neighbors. These sites provide not only meals, but also education about nutrition and other activities.

Services

The Nutrition Services Program for older adults includes both congregate meals that are served in area Senior Centers and nutrition sites, and home delivered meals. Both types of meals are funded through the Older Americans Act Title III, state, and local funds, and there are no income guidelines and no charge to receive a meal. Donations for meals are accepted. The program solicits and collects donations from meal recipients and the community-at-large as well. Income received from donations is used to provide more meals each month. The programs are supported by volunteers, many of whom are seniors themselves, who serve congregate meals and even deliver meals to homes in their communities.

Eligibility
Eligibility for Congregate Meal Service
The individual must be aged (60) or older, or . . .
Must be a volunteer to handicapped persons residing in an older adult housing complex where a nutrition site is located, or . . .
Must be a disabled individual who resides in a non-institutional household with and accompanies a person eligible for a congregate meal, or . . .
Must be a client in an Adult Day Center and/or an Alzheimer’s Disease Respite Program.

Eligibility for Home Delivered Meal Service
The individual must be aged (60) or older, and they or their spouse are, by reason of illness, incapacity, or disability, unable to attend a nutrition site, or . . .
Must be alone in their home with no one to prepare a nutritious meal on a regular basis, or . . .
Must be an individual who is not yet (60) but has a disability and lives with an older adult as a member of a non-institutional household.

Application

Contact the Senior Center in your area for information about the application and intake process to become eligible for meal and nutrition services.

Contact

Lynn Bowes
Bluegrass Community Action Partnership

101 Burch Court
Frankfort, KY  40601
(502) 875-5863,
Or, Toll Free at (800) 456-3452
lynn.bowes@bgcap.org

M – F   8:00AM - 4:30PM