Jul
4
Programs for elders struggle due to gas price
Filed Under News
Is anyone not struggling with today’s gas price? I think nobody isn’t. The officials at the Faulkner County Senior Citizens Center are starting to run out of options and are slowly getting desperate. They help in delivering 300 meals on wheels a day to the seniors in Conway alone and the soaring price of gasoline is not helping at all.
They are now cutting back on the meals on wheels program to just three days a week for the very first time since they have started operating in thirty years. Some of the drivers said that the choice to cut back is not really a choice at all. It’s more on the side of they have no choice at all. They said that they have never seen it go bad and they think that it will get worse.
If the government leaders do not step up and increase the funds for in-home services, then thousands of seniors will be forced in to nursing homes. I think this is a wake up call. The government should answer this call.
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