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By Darleen Mahoney
Some choose to do so because they
would like to take a more relaxing ap-
proach to the kitchen in their retire-
ment years and do not want to sacrifice
nutritional benefits.

What should be considered?
• Diets - multiple health reasons can
limit one’s diet options, choosing a
delivery service that takes these seri-
ously in their food prep, but still can
Recently our website, SeniorLiving- provide tasty food would be ideal.
Guide.com, added a chat box. We
decided to have a very hands on ap- • Affordability - Meal delivery may be
proach to this as we wanted to have a more affordable option than eating
our own team answering and interact- out. For some Seniors, there are also
ing with our online visitors and we services such as Meals On Wheels
also wanted to have additional insight www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org.
to what our visitors were looking for
when visiting our website. Our online • Taste - This is very important in
chats have been very eye opening in the choosing a delivery service, does it
inquiries that our online visitors need taste good? If not, continue looking
help with even beyond the scope of at different options. There are many
housing needs. websites such as, www.momsmeals.
com and www.diana-food.com,
Meal delivery for Seniors has been a that may offer healthy solutions to
topic that our team has recently meal delivery.
assisted in.
Why is this important to Seniors?
Why are more seniors or their care-
givers choosing delivery services for
health reasons?

Some of the reasons would be out of
necessity. They do not have the ability
to prepare healthy meals due to their
own health reasons or they are over-
whelmed with caring for their spouse.
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