The Health Trust provides nutritious meals daily home delivered to physically challenged, homebound individuals, whether they are elderly, are recuperating after a recent hospitalization, or have disabilities confining them to a wheelchair. The program helps meet the growing needs of Santa Clara County’s aging population.

Essential services include:

• Home delivery of nutritious meals daily to physically challenged, homebound individuals, whether they are elderly, are recuperating after a recent hospitalization, or have disabilities confining them to a wheelchair.
• Daily wellness checks when trained food drivers visit the client’s home.
• A limited program of case management that connects clients with needed services and helps during a crisis.

To learn more, apply for Meals on Wheels for yourself or a family, or to volunteer, call: 408-961-9870 or toll-free at 800-505-3367. The application process will take approximately 15 minutes.

Community Support is Critical

Meals on Wheels currently serves more than 700 clients in Santa Clara County, delivering more than more than 97,000 meals annually. Yet a growing number of seniors continue to live a solitary existence, suffering from the effects of malnutrition because they are physically or financially unable to care for themselves. Many are simply too proud to ask for help. With your increased support, Meal on Wheels can help feed many more seniors and other physically challenged residents. We urge you to become a Meals On Wheels solution partner through your financial contribution. Click here to make a donation.

Community Gifts

Handmade quilts, greeting cards, placemats and dog treats are always welcome. Help organize the collection and distribution of these gifts.

About Pets and Their Loving Seniors (PALS)

About five years ago, The Health Trust learned that some low-income clients were sharing their hot meals with their pets because they couldn’t afford pet food. That’s when we created the PALS (Pets and Their Loving Seniors) Program. Meals On Wheels PALS provides free pet food to low-income seniors and homebound adults who live with animal companions. Clients select the food that they need for their pets from a list of available items; then community volunteers help to sort, label, and deliver the pet food on a monthly basis. PALS operates entirely on donations, and food is delivered exclusively by volunteers.

Our goal is to provide food resources so that low-income, homebound Meals On Wheels clients can best care for their animal companions – which, in turn, provide them with therapeutic support to help them maintain their health, well-being, and independence. Ensuring adequate nutrition is vital to our clients. Hunger can be life-threatening. The PALS Program ensures that both the pet and owner receive adequate nutrition to maintain good health. Click here to make a donation.

Meals On Wheels is supported with $101,762 from The City of San Jose Healthy Neighborhood Venture Fund and with $25,950 from the City of San Jose Housing Services.