Help is on the Way for Senior Food Insecurity
Money has just arrived to help Michigan seniors/older adults, facing food insecurity, and it couldn t come at a better time.
The Food Bank Council of Michigan – in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services – recently received a Feeding America Boundless Collaborations grant to support a statewide grocery delivery program for older adults facing food insecurity.
Fox17 reported that senior food insecurity became more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, as older adults were particularly vulnerable to the virus, unable to leave their homes and were also left without support services like the ability to get meals.
Partnership aims to tackle food insecurity among seniors through grocery deliveries
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A shopper surveys the overflowing selection of packaged meat in a grocery early Monday, April 27, 2020, in southeast Denver. With closures in meat processing plants across the country because of the spread of the new coronavirus among workers, food analysts are forecasting shortages of beef, pork and poultry on the shelves of the country s supermarkets in the days ahead. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
and last updated 2021-06-09 10:29:50-04
LANSING, Mich. â The Food Bank Council of Michigan â in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services â recently received a Feeding America Boundless Collaborations grant to support a statewide grocery delivery program for older adults facing food insecurity.