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CareLink serves meals to about 1,200 people a day, including 800 Meals On Wheels clients, eight Senior Centers and CareLink’s Adult Day Center – soon to be expanded as the Peggy and Joe Hastings Respite Center that will also be housed in the new facility.

Meals On Wheels is a cost-effective service that helps older people remain in their own homes as long as possible. The program prevents nursing home placements, which cost three to four times more than home care. Malnutrition is a frequent cause of hospitalization for older people, and meals can be provided to an older person for an entire year for less than the cost of one day in a hospital.

The current CareLink kitchen facility was built to serve 250 meals per day and cannot meet our demand for meals, a demand that is expected to triple as baby boomers age.  Ultimately, we expect to increase our capacity from 1,200 to 3,000 meals a day.

The existing kitchen is a part of a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) project that is scheduled to be demolished. CareLink purchased a vacant grocery store that meets specifications in terms of size and location to retrofit as a commercial kitchen facility and the Peggy and Joe Hastings Respite Center.