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Home-Delivered Meals

Rose Centers for Aging Well Home-Delivered Meals driver/jumper handing home-delivered meal participant their lunch

For more information on our home-delivered meal service, call (216) 373-1994. To refer an older adult, please fill out and submit our Referral Form.

Benjamin Rose aims to reduce food insecurity among older adults and provide meals to those who are food insecure. The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for a healthy life. Currently, about 5 million older adults are facing food insecurity and hunger, a number that is on the rise every year. Experts predict that by 2020, that number could rise to about 8 million. To help address this issues, our Rose Centers for Aging Well offer home delivery service of nutritious hot and cold meals to older adults who cannot leave their homes. 

If an older adult you work with lacks access to food in the home, we can help. Participants receive one meal a day Monday through Friday, delivered between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Professionally trained home-delivered meals staff deliver meals directly to participants’ doors. Our delivery teams treat each participant with courtesy and respect, and provide a familiar and friendly face to check-in on them at home. 

Our menus offer balanced meals to meet participants’ nutritional needs, including foods containing protein, dairy and starch, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables. Menus include both hot and cold entrées such as turkey or cold cut sandwiches, fruit cups and yogurt. We ask that you please let us know of your client’s dietary restrictions when scheduling meals, as some of our meals can be tailored to accommodate specific needs. 

If inclement weather prevents our daily meal delivery service, the delivery team will alert participants to planned closings in advance. Additionally, closings can be confirmed by checking the local news or calling into our office.   

To be eligible for home-delivered meals through our program, participants must: 

  • Live in Cuyahoga County 
  • Be at least 60 years of age 
  • Be unable to shop for or prepare meals independently 

Caregivers of older adults who receive meals through our program may also be eligible to receive meals.  

During the intake process, payment options will be discussed, including approved insurance providers.  

We are a proud member of Meals on Wheels America, which connects us to helpful services and resources. 

 

 

Leadership

Leadership

Jackie Hart

Home-Delivered Meals Administrator

Contact: intake@benrose.org | (216) 373-1994

Jackie Hart is the Home-Delivered Meals Administrator at Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. In this role, she oversees 15 drivers/jumpers who deliver more than 500 meals to participants Monday-Friday, each week. Hart is responsible for: ordering weekly meals, preparing daily paperwork for each delivery route and tracking meal delivery, maintaining up-to-date participant records and tracking referrals for new participants.

Jackie Hart is the Home-Delivered Meals Administrator at Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. In this role, she oversees 15 drivers/jumpers who deliver more than 500 meals to participants Monday-Friday, each week. Hart is responsible for: ordering weekly meals, preparing daily paperwork for each delivery route and tracking meal delivery, maintaining up-to-date participant records and tracking referrals for new participants.

Hart has worked in the industry for more than ten years, beginning her career as a Kitchen Aid for the Golden Age Centers, now known as the Rose Centers for Aging Well, in 2006. Throughout the years, Hart’s responsibilities grew as she moved from Kitchen Aid to Food Manager, and then to Home-Delivered Meals Program Assistant, before assuming her current role as Home-Delivered Meals Administrator in May, 2018.

Hart has always enjoyed working with the public and with older adults. She earned an Associate in Arts in 2006 from Cuyahoga Community College. She also learned American Sign Language (ASL) to have a way to communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing.