The St. Mary’s County Department of Aging offers and delivers Home Delivered Meal services (Meals On Wheels/MOW) to the citizens of St. Mary’s County in accordance with Maryland Department of Aging (Maging) Program directives. Residents are determined eligible for home delivered meal (HDM) services based on the requirement set-forth in the Directives which states, (in part), “Home delivered nutrition services shall be available to any person age 60 or older who is homebound by reason of illness or incapacitation…”

Using a state standardized scale/format, Department of Aging staff meets with the applicant to assess his/her ability to perform standard activities of daily living and develops an overall score for the applicant.

The Meals On Wheels (MOW) program provides clients with a mid-day meal that may be either hot or frozen. Hot meals are delivered when a client cannot prepare a frozen meal and when they live in a location that is served by a hot meal route. Hot meals are usually delivered by volunteer meal drivers.

Frozen meals are delivered to program clients who are able to properly prepare the frozen meal and who do not live on an established hot meal route. Frozen meals are delivered in five-meal packages by a Department of Aging driver.

Each MOW client also receives a package of shelf-stable meals that do not require heating or other preparation. These meals are intended to be kept in reserve by program clients for use on those occasions when normal meal delivery cannot be made.

To learn more about becoming a volunteer meal driver, CLICK HERE.