The Southern Crescent Area Agency on Aging provides home delivered meals to eligible older adults or other eligible participants at the client's place of residence. Each meal which complies with Dietary Guidelines for Americans and provides at least 33.3 % of the RDA for each meal. Frozen meals are available for weekends and holidays and shelf stable meals are provided annually prior to the winter weather season to insure each home bound client will have a meal in the event of inclimate weather or other emergency situations when the regular meal cannot be delivered.
Home delivered meals are available throughout the ten county service area including:
- Butts County
- Carroll County
- Coweta County
- Heard County
- Lamar County
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- Meriwether County
- Pike County
- Spalding County
- Troup County
- Upson County
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The Southern Crescent Area Agency on Aging coordinates meal provision through senior centers, churches and many other local organizations however, there remains remote pockets in the region that currently do not have delivery programs. Call the Southern Crescent Area Agency on Aging Gateway to obtain specific availability information.
The Home Delivered Meal program is in need of volunteers to assist with meal delivery. Call the Southern Crescent Area Agency on Aging Gateway or your local senior center to find out how you can become a meal delivery volunteer.