You help me not be so lonely! Why are senior citizens living alone? Do they have someone to help them?
These are great questions but the fact is that most options aren’t easily attainable. Many have not properly
planned for this stage of life; and the legacies they’ve built they want to hold on to. With limited support as
younger generations move away to discover their own futures, many elderly are left alone.
Serving so much more than a meal at the doorsteps of Lorain County’s elderly, Neighborhood Alliance Senior Meal Delivery driver
Jimmy Torres was honored in March 2014 by the American Red Cross Lorain County for saving the life of an elderly woman who
had fallen in her home.
Jimmy Torres, a Senior Nutrition driver with Neighborhood Alliance called 911 today while delivering meals on his Elyria route. Jimmy
heard the faint cry for help through the door of his clients’ home and immediately leaped into action. Usually this particular client would
leave the door unlocked for Jimmy to enter and deliver her meals, however today the door remained locked. The authorities were forced to take
out a window air-conditioning unit in order to enter the clients’ home. It is still unclear how long the client had been on the ground following
her fall, but there is no telling how long she would have remained laying there without this meal delivery from Neighborhood Alliance.
Senior Nutrition Home Delivered Meals Program provides nutritionally balanced meals to
the frailest of seniors and severely handicapped in Lorain County.