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Deupree Meals on Wheels
Today, fewer older adults are getting the nutrients they need to sustain healthy, productive lives. Whether it is due to an inability to prepare meals, shop for groceries, or a lack of outside support, it is comforting to know assistance is available.
Since 1989, Deupree Meals on Wheels, located in Hyde Park, has provided older adults in the eastern portion of Cincinnati with warm, nutritious meals delivered right into their homes. The program strives to supplement family support by providing older adults with a healthy meal and social contact. The goal is to help clients remain independent longer, and with dignity. Those recovering from a recent injury or hospitalization, and those chronically ill or disabled, have found Meals on Wheels to be an excellent option.
"At age 90, my doctor realized I was getting too much salt in my diet and said I needed Meals on Wheels," says Katherine Riley, a Meals on Wheels recipient. "It has been simply wonderful. I enjoy the visits and am thankful for what they do. I call them "angels on wheels' because these are volunteers. The whole program is really great. It's what keeps me going!"
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Click here to view a broadcast segment on News 5, WLWT featuring Deupree Meals on Wheels delivering in the snow.
Not All Meals-on-Wheels Are The Same!
Deupree Meals on Wheels is a service from Episcopal Retirement Homes, administered in partnership with the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio. Click here to see why the Deupree Meals on Wheel program is different from the others.
Donations of any size are welcome so that we can help even more people throughout Greater Cincinnati. Click here to donate to Deupree Meals on Wheels!
Quick Facts
- Staff and volunteers prepare and deliver more than 350 meals each day, running 12 daily volunteer routes. More than 100 volunteers make meal deliveries each week.
- ERH spends more than $450,000 annually to run the program, providing first-class cooking talent and staffing the volunteer delivery process so it goes smoothly.
- In addition to meal delivery, volunteers provide a valuable check-in for the elderly.
- One day, a volunteer attempted to make a meal delivery to a client whose day typically revolved around the visit. When she didn't answer the door and didn't answer her phone, the volunteer knew that something wasn't right.
- The Deupree Meals On Wheels coordinator then called the client's family, who promptly went to the house and discovered that their mother had fallen in the basement and had broken a hip. What was ordinarily a routine visit quickly turned into a life-saving act.
