Meals on Wheels for old people / by Amelia I. Harris.

  • Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Social Survey Division
Date:
[1961]
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Credit: Meals on Wheels for old people / by Amelia I. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recipient can save one for the next day. On the other hand, a scheme operating on 5 days, serving 200 meals a week, may give 200 people one meal, or 100 people 2 meals, or 40 people 5 meals. There would appear to be a number of different factors taken into consider- ation in deciding the number of meals to allocate to any one recipient. These are as follows:- Number of days on which service can operate. Number of people known to require meals. - Number of meals each person needs. Number of meals each person will take. - Ability to supply the right sort of meal. WNW FP WN DY FH e Attitude of the local organiser towards the value of the meal itself as distinct from the value of the social contact in delivering the meal. The number of meals given to recipients by various organisations in the sur- vey week is given in Table 9. VTA BPie, 9 Number of meals per recipient in the survey week, analysed by organisation responsible Number of recipients in schemes organised by All OPWC + aye Schemes W.V.S. No. %1{ No. & No. @ No. % No. @ _ SS ee a a Ee | 7172-46 22| 119 20 6059 40 909 854 237 26 i Number of meals per week per recipient 863 671 229 43 | 8298 42 185 14) 194 36 1631 8 Cy ears Ge: ly Oe ES 260, 2 Feit 18 712) pa A 29a a 66 — All recipients except those having no meals I survey week 1299 100 19873 100 15258 100 ; 2194 100 722.people who normally have meals delivered had none during the survey week. Most of these are in schemes which have closed, some are individuals who were away on holiday, or out for the day where only one meal was delivered. A very high proportion of recipients (40%) get one meal a week only and it is obvious that the W.V.S. contribute very greatly to this proportion. The schemes for which W.V.S. have sole responsibility serve almost half their recipients with one meal (46%), as against 17% for schemes where they have only part or no responsibility. 2 in every hundred recipients get 5 meals a week in W.V.S. schemes, compared with 17 per hundred for Red Cross and 18 per hundred for Local Authorities. Only 21 people get a meal every day, and 66 on 6 days a week. The distribution of meals per person for regions in England, Wales and Scotland is given in Table 10. = 5f.
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