Sentence examples for senior meals from inspiring English sources

As baby boomers surge past age 60, when one becomes eligible for senior meals, the city will need to serve larger numbers at its senior citizens centers.

So are senior meals at the Adult Recreation Center, Sparr Heights Community Center and delivered to home-bound seniors.

There he fired up the crowd over Bloomberg administration plans to switch the senior meals program to frozen meals and to consolidate senior centers.

This year, the city was awarded an annual $225,000 grant through 2016 to pay for senior meals, but it may be slashed 5% every year.

From senior meals to code enforcement, several local public services will be affected by the $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts that took effect last week.

Powell County Senior Center in Deer Lodge Montana where high school students volunteer in the senior meals programs and preschool children come to eat lunch with the elders and sing.

About half the county's 15 public libraries remained closed, as did 16 senior meal sites.

"We have more seniors than we've ever had before, and we are cutting necessary and vital programs for their health and independence, said Maggie Kavarian, who supervises senior meal program.

And skyrocketing food prices didn't help, either: higher prices of gas, coffee, hamburger and cheese all hit food providers hard, coupling with spotty cash flow to hinder their efforts to provide seniors meals.

Child care, mental health care, literacy, senior centers, Meals on Wheels, home care, after-school programs, and employment and training for the unemployed help people succeed despite life's downturns.

In central Maine, for example, the agency on aging has started a waiting list for seniors and cut the number of weekly visits to seniors receiving meals from two to one.