The Healthy Food Assistance program provides older adults with high quality, tasty, nutritionally sound, and diverse meal choices.
The Congregate Meal and Home Delivered Meal Programs are designed for older individuals, age 60 and older, to live independently, have better health, and reduced isolation. Good nutrition is an important part of living a healthy lifestyle for older adults. Healthy Food Assistance is available to low-income, Broward County families and older adults. Empowered Partners is a comprehensive older adults United Way outreach program focused on increasing social connectedness, access to care, and food security in older adults in Broward County while improving older adult care knowledge across the system of care.
In an effort to decrease food insecurity in older adults, the program offers an opportunity to provide qualifying older adults with a monthly food box through our provider, Sterling Food Co. To qualify, you must be an older adult 60 years or older, living in Broward County. The food box will be delivered to your home address at approximately the same time each month.
Priority will be given to older adults who are participating in the Empowered Partners Companionship Program. Home delivered meals provide to eligible individuals with nutritionally sound, high quality, tasty meals in their homes. Emphasis is placed on serving older adults who are at greatest economic and social need, low-income minorities, and those who are at nutritional risk. There is a choice of specialty meals such as puree, gluten-free, Kosher, and other options if you are on a specialized diet.
In addition, there are culturally diverse food choices such as Cuban, Italian, and other options available. To be eligible for our Home Delivered Meal program you must be age 60 or older and homebound or a caregiver living in a home with an older adult who is homebound. If you email please provide, your name, address, and phone number and one of our Information and Referral Professionals will call you back.
