Guided by the needs of the elderly, Jingtai County explores the establishment of flexible and diverse service methods such as love restaurants and canteens for the elderly, so as to provide nutritious and convenient meal assistance services for the elderly, so that the elderly can enjoy the happiness of "food" at their doorstep.
At half past eleven o'clock in the morning, there were already many elderly people dining in the love canteen of the comprehensive elderly care service center in Yishan Town, Jingtai County. In the back kitchen, the chef carefully prepares the noon meal, and with the braised pork and mapo tofu out of the pot, the air is filled with bursts of aroma.
Dining old man Zhu Xingfa
"I eat here every day, one meat and one vegetarian are six yuan, and the food is very good and affordable."
In order to better take care of the dining experience of the elderly, on the basis of ensuring a clean and tidy dining environment, the Love Canteen launches dishes suitable for the elderly according to their needs and preferences, and strives to provide nutritious, affordable, safe and hygienic meal assistance services for the elderly.
Zhang Dewen, head of the comprehensive elderly care center in Yishan Town, Jingtai County
"Our restaurant strictly controls the purchase channels of ingredients to bring healthy, hygienic and delicious meals to the elderly, and the restaurant will provide nutritionally balanced, easily digestible meals suitable for the taste of the elderly according to the eating habits and needs of the elderly."
Jingtai County comprehensively considers factors such as regional population density, aging degree and distribution, meal service demand, service resources, service radius, etc., and actively explores the meal service model for the elderly, rationally arranges meal service points, and provides meal service services for the elderly.
Zhang Jiali, director of Jingtai County Social Welfare Service Center
As the main position of meal assistance for the elderly, the love restaurant of the comprehensive elderly care service center in Yishan Town undertakes meal assistance and meal delivery services in the urban area. Seniors over the age of 60 enjoy subsidies from the civil affairs department for meals, and enjoy absolute preferential prices for meals in the store; The elderly, disabled, disabled and other elderly people with reduced mobility can order meals online and enjoy door-to-door delivery services. In order to facilitate the meals of the elderly in other communities, we have set up meal assistance points at each community elderly care service station, so that the elderly can order meals in advance and eat at the nearest community meal assistance points. ”
Jingtai County continues to expand meal service points, introduce more high-quality catering institutions, link more public welfare resources to join the meal delivery service, promote the meal service for the elderly from "have" to "excellent", and effectively solve the problem of "eating worries and difficulties in eating" for the elderly, living alone, empty nest and other elderly groups, so that the elderly in the jurisdiction can "have food and food security" and enjoy a happy life in their old age.
Source: Silver News public account