Photo: CityMeals on Wheels
Manhattan's summer heat made Mary Hynes reluctant to go outside. “Thank God for these guys,” she said of the volunteer dropping off her weekly meals. Hynes is one of more than 20,000 New Yorkers 60 and older who receive meal deliveries from Citymeals on Wheels, founded in 1981 to fill gaps in the city’s public meal assistance program for homebound New Yorkers. New York City’s Department for the Aging facilitates home-delivered meals for older New Yorkers on weekdays. As well as weekend and holidays, Citymeals delivers food to older adults during localized emergencies — and as climate change makes summers hotter and hotter, volunteers can observe a meal recipient on a hot day, check for signs of heat-related illness, and ask if they have enough water or trouble cooling their home.
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