In order to qualify for Meals on Wheels home-delivered meals, recipients must:

1. Be homebound, which is a person described as "normally unable to leave the home, in that leaving the home requires considerable and taxing effort by the individual which may require assistance; absences of the individual from the home are infrequent or of a relatively short duration or attributable to the need to receive medical treatment"; and
2. Be unable to prepare some or all of his/her own meals due to restrictive physical or mental conditions or frailty, and at risk without nutritional supportive services; and
3. Have no one else in the home with them during the day who can prepare the recipient’s meals, except in the case where respite support may be provided; and
4. Make a good faith effort to support the program by making a donation of the cost of the meals (unit cost) or as much as is feasible toward that cost. Family members or others will be encouraged to contribute on behalf of a recipient’s meal service if the recipient cannot cover the costs.