"W. Baker" > wrote in message
...
> Tiger Lily > wrote:
> : On 9/4/2011 6:22 PM, W. Baker wrote:
> : > Tiger > wrote:
>
> : > : The is an elderly couple who take a taxi to/from the restaurant
> every
> : > : day for their dinner. Dinner is 4:30 pm for them and they take home
> 1/2
> : > : the senior's portion they just ate. The lady indicates that a soft
> : > : boiled egg, toast and coffee is their morning meal; the left overs
> are
> : > : their mid day meal; dinner ensures they have at least lunch at home
> the
> : > : next day.
> : >
> : > : i didn't define elderly
> : > : he's 102 and she's 97
> : >
> : > : kate
> : >
> : > Do they have a senior feeding program either like senior lunches for
> a
> : > small fee or meals on wheels whic bring a prepared meal to the house 5
> das
> : > a week? The other meals woul only entail light shopping that your
> mother
> : > could learn to do or that one of you could send over or oder from the
> : > computer.
> : >
> : > Wendy
>
> : Wendy, Meals on Wheels provides this service to the elderly. I don't
> : know about the remote area that Julie's parents live in. I know some
> : restaurants make your choice from 10 items, prepared in advance, frozen
> : and you only need to reheat them. These would be more upscale meals and
> : typically are a touch more appealing than the meals on wheels options.
>
> : kate
>
> In the very rural Margateville area there is a senior feeding program at
> the local Methodist church(not church run, but gov't run) it has a luch
> program for those who can travel or be bussed there and home delivered
> meals for those who are homebound. Menus issues monthly-no choice, but
> very inexpensive and standard institutional nutritions. Many of the town
> have a similar program in Delaware county. Judging from the number of
> food stores that Julie seems to have available at less than 50 miles away,
> I would say that her area is far less rural than Delaware County.

My parents live in a suburb of Seattle with pretty much all they might need
except perhaps for some medical specialists which is why he was transferred
to that specific hospital. There is a grocery store within walking distance
from their house. Also some restaurants but for the most part not ones they
would eat in. There is a Subway. My dad likes it. My mom does not. My
dad can not walk very far. My mom can, but given her macular degeneration I
feel it would be unsafe for her to go out on her own. She knows that she
has it, but seems to be in severe denial about how bad it is. She still
seems to think that what she sees (or doesn't see) is what everyone else
sees.

When my dad was driving she would yell at him for jerking the car around
having no clue that he had actually changed to another lane. When we would
tell her that he did she would either say that she didn't know or that he
really hadn't done that.

Once I commented on a woman's green eye shadow (she was totally dressed in
green) and my mom tried to tell me that I couldn't see the woman's eyes.
But I clearly could.