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The Meals-on-Wheels service provides hot meals to older and disabled people in the community who are unable to prepare meals or to heat frozen meals.
Referrals for the service can only be accepted from Health and Adult and Community Care professionals including: GPs, district nurses, hospital discharge co-ordinators.
The referral agency will need to fully complete |The Single Assessment Form and Meals on Wheels Referral Sheet before the service can commence.
Criteria for referral, the client must be:
The weekend service is only provided to totally housebound retired residents who do not have family living locally.
The cost of the meal and sweet is £3.10 and without sweet £2.80. Dessert only £1.00. Please note that for hot meals delivered at weekends to Hersham, Walton, Weybridge, Cobham, Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon there is an additional cost of 50 pence per day.
Payment can be made by cash, cheque or paid to the volunteers either daily or weekly. Alternatively, a monthly account payable in arrears administered through the Civic Centre can be arranged.
Further information is detailed in our |Meals on Wheels leaflet.
|See our Aims, Objectives and Service Standards leaflet.
All meals are prepared at the Centres for Retired People around the borough and are delivered by volunteers. Upon referral the client will be assessed by one of the Centre Managers.
An alternative service is available for those people who are unable to cook but are capable of heating a frozen meal. For more information please see the |Frozen Meals Service page.