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OPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE
TO Serve

Feed Seniors NOW

ood nutrition contributes affect appetite and digestion. Use the encourages businesses, organizations,
to a superior quality of life resources available (including your and churches to hold food and fund
Gfor seniors. At Comfort pharmacist) to check for drug-nutrient drives to provide food for the LMOW
Keepers, we help seniors live healthy, interactions or possible side effects of weekend meal program.
independent lives and promote senior prescribed medications.
nutrition through our Feed Seniors Food items to be collected include the
Now initiative. According to Texas If there are medical questions following: Individually sized cheese
Health & Human Services (hhs.texas. regarding nutrition, medication, and crackers, peanuts, peanut butter
gov), one in nine seniors in Texas is at health, Comfort Keepers suggests that crackers, Chef Boyardee meals, small
risk of hunger. seniors, their family members, and cans of tuna, chicken, Vienna sausages,
other caregivers speak with doctors Beanie Weenies, and 10.75 oz cans of
As seniors age and change, so do their about tests to help identify chronic soup. Expired items cannot be used.
nutritional needs. Making sure those malnutrition or other nutrition-related
needs are met makes a real difference problems. Please contact Comfort Keepers
in their quality of life. Caregivers or at (806) 687-7800 to help Feed
family members should be aware of Nourishing seniors is an important Seniors Now.
the signs and symptoms of hunger or part of maintaining senior
malnutrition in older adults, which independence.
include the following: Comfort Keepers
champions senior
• Physical problems – Look for such nutrition in the
things as poor wound healing, easy community through
bruising, and dental difficulties. the Feed Seniors
Now food drive.
• Weight loss – Check with either a
home scale or by transporting the older Comfort Keepers
adult to the doctor’s office for weight of Lubbock is
checks when the individual is unable partnering with
to stand without assistance. Lubbock Meals on
Wheels (LMOW) to
• Eating habits – Ask them to tell you feed seniors on the
where and when they eat, but don’t LMOW weekend
rely on self-reports alone. Since our meal program; 59% Senior safety and
caregivers (the people we call Comfort of LMOW clients well- -being is what we do
Keepers®) often spend mealtimes are on the weekend
with seniors at home, they may have meal program. In-Home Senior Care Services
a better idea of normal eating habits. These seniors often
We suggest family members visit have no other • Personal care • Dementia and
during mealtimes, which can improve means to obtain • Companionship Alzheimer's care
a senior’s consumption. If a senior lives weekend food and housekeeping • Safety solutions
alone, make sure you know who is other than what is • Respite care
buying his or her food. provided through
Lubbock Meals on (806) 687-7800
• Medication (regularity and food Wheels. Throughout 2517 74th Street, Lubbock, TX 79423
interaction) – Know what an older September, Comfort Uplifting In-Home Care | ComfortKeepers.com
loved one takes and whether it can © 2020 CK Franchising, Inc. Most offices independently owned and operated. 0720
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