The Albemarle Commission
Senior Nutrition Home Delivered Meals Program delivers meals to homebound seniors over sixty years of age who are unable to prepare their own meals. This program is need-based and not related to income.
Today in America 1 in 9 seniors- an astonishing 5 million people-is at
risk of hunger. Below is an excerpt from
The Causes, Consequences and Future of Senior
Hunger in America; a groundbreaking study conducted by the University
of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research and Iowa State University.
Learn more about senior hunger.
- Over 5 million seniors-11.4 percent of all seniors-experienced
some form of food insecurity (i.e., were marginally food insecure). Of
these, about 2.5 million were at-risk of hunger, and about 750,000
suffered from hunger due to financial constraints. America
- Some groups of seniors are more likely to be at-risk of hunger.
Relative to their representation in the overall senior population,
those with limited incomes, under age 70, African-Americans, Hispanics,
never-married individuals, renters, and persons living in the South are
all more likely to be at-risk of hunger.
- While certain groups of seniors are at greater-risk of hunger,
hunger cuts across the income spectrum. For example, over 50% of all
seniors who are at-risk of hunger have incomes above the poverty line.
Likewise, it is present in all demographic groups. For example, over
two-thirds of seniors at-risk of hunger are white.
- There are marked differences in the risk of hunger across family
structure, especially for those seniors living alone, or those living
with a grandchild. Those living alone are twice as likely to experience
hunger compared to married seniors. One in five senior households with
a grandchild (but no adult child) present is at-risk of hunger compared
to about one in twenty households without a grandchild present.
- Seniors living in non-metropolitan areas are as likely to experience
food insecurity as those living in metropolitan areas, suggesting that
food insecurity cuts across the urban-rural continuum.
Make A Difference. The Senior Nutrition Program needs volunteers to deliver
nutritious meals to senior citizens. Contact Della Perry at
(252-441-1181) or Sandra Cantrell Bush at (252-473-5768 ext. 28).
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