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Serving food and conversation lifts senior's spirits
Ronald Malouf, 76, could no longer cook or shop after chemo caused congestive heart failure. He gets help from Community SeniorServ, one of the 2011 Season of Caring charities.Ronald Malouf eats every bite of the low-sodium food delivered to him five days a week, but what really...
Read moreWoman and Son Struggle
ANAHEIM – Julie Anderson has spent the last 5½ years making life work with a hot plate and an electric skillet. Her kitchen is not a kitchen at all but an Anaheim motel room that she shares with her 40-year-old son. Anderson turns out cupcakes and life's other essentials all the same.
They have a roof over their heads but that's where the luxury begins and ends. Her son works full-time, helping other people find jobs. But there is just never enough money to go...
Read moreState settlement spares adult day health care
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State settlement spares adult day health care Low-income Californians with disabilities and serious illness will continue receiving services to keep them out of nursing homes after state officials Thursday settled a lawsuit challenging the elimination of the Adult Day Health Care program.
"We are overjoyed about this," said Holly Hagler, chief executive of Community Senior Serv, which runs two adult day centers in Santa Ana and Anaheim. "This is going to be...
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Most of us have heard the name Meals on Wheels, but not many know Community SeniorServ, the big hearted organization that makes those meals and then gives them wheels.
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CSS uses social enterprise to pay the bills
Nonprofit that provides three meals a day, five days a week, is trying to make its for-profit side pay the bills. A local organization dedicated to feeding homebound seniors is having to get creative to support Orange County’s aging population by dipping its hand into social enterprise.
Community SeniorServ, based in Anaheim, is trying to expand the for-profit side of its business to meet the growing needs of its nonprofit side by increasing its bulk food...
Read moreHoliday Meal Served With Laughs and Dancing
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Orange County Register - The Fullerton Senior Center hosted a Thanksgiving Luncheon Friday for more than 170 guests. "I had a lot of volunteers, which is great," said Coco Barragan, site manager for Community SeniorServ, which provides daily lunch meals at 27 centers in Orange...
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