<p>3bm103, I believe this is your area. </p>
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<p>Maybe someone at their church office has a recommendation. We get emails from our church with requests to help neighbors. It is no big deal to pick up something from the store or to send our boys over to rake.</p>
<p>Netgrocer seem to offer fresh food now. They deliver fresh/frozen stuff in a special container. I would definitely check into local large grocery stores to see if they have online service. In NYC we have Freshdirect. Few years back few MBA students started a grocery delivering service in Ithaca. I found it by just googling. They have since graduated.:(</p>
<p>Our area isn’t better but it IS a large city, and the senior center facilitates volunteers-they don’t run a paid service.</p>
<p>But the church idea is a good one-the one I work at has many seniors who no longer drive and we have several volunteers who unofficially help some of them. If they belong to a church, see if the administration will send out a request for helpers, or you could try your own if you have one. There are people who do errands for a living too-one of our members does everything from house sitting to grocery shopping to make extra money.</p>
<p>3b, maybe one of these links will help? I’d try talking to the manager at a couple of the local grocery stores, too, to see if they know of a store that delivers or a business that can help which they would recommend.</p>
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<p>Here’s another one.</p>
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<p>Also surprised that none of the big grocery stores in the area offer this service. Have you checked with all of them? Wal-Mart delivers groceries in many areas. How about a business that will provide different services for people, like shopping, picking up dry cleaning, running errands, one of those personal concierge businesses? They seem to be everywhere these days.</p>
<p>Are there any local seniors clubs / day care centres that offer activities? Some of the ones local to my own grandmother will take them out en masse and let them loose at the grocery store (with help!) and then take them and the groceries back home. </p>
<p>Alternatively are there any friends / neighbours who would be willing to pick up a few extra items when they happen to go to the store? </p>
<p>Unfortunately, we’ve now got to the stage where we call to ask what my grandmother might need, the answer comes back as “oh, nothing dear, I’m quite alright”. Upon inspection it turns out that there’s no milk and limited other food in the fridge, but she’s completely forgotten about this :(</p>
<p>3b, have you had any success finding a solution?</p>
<p>No we haven’t. But we really don’t need it quite yet. My parents want to move into a retirement community nearby, but worry that they aren’t within walking distance of a grocery store. Trying to find a solution that doesn’t involve them having to ask anybody for help.</p>
<p>Best wishes. If they are willing to move, would they consider looking for a location that provides transportation to shopping and medical appts?</p>
<p>They definitely need to move. They are in their 80’s and live in a 4000sq ft house that they can no longer manage on their own.</p>
<p>Finding a place that is reasonably close by to one of their children, and fits all their needs seems to be harder than you’d think. I’ve taken them to see quite a few places and they are either in an area they don’t want to live, run down, doesn’t offer enough services, too small for them, or a host of other problem. They one they found that they are looking at seems to offer the best chance, but not within walking distance of a grocery store which for some reasons is very important to them.</p>
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<p>So often, these questions (how to get grocery delivery) are the tip of the iceberg to the greater problem – a couple in their 80’s in a 4,000 square foot house they can no longer manage.</p>
<p>You and your siblings are probably at the beginning of a big year of change, and it may end up being much for the better once it’s all shaken out.</p>
<p>Do I understand correctly that you’re the only child not living close by? That’s a hard position to be in, I know from first-hand experience. </p>
<p>I have found my best power from long-distance is to be the one to galvanize the siblings to see how close THEY are to solving a small impediment to significant change. That your parents are ready to consider moving is the most important thing, so follow their lead. Count your blessings that they can make this decision together as a couple, and help them achieve that together while they can do so. </p>
<p>What would happen if you were to email your sibs to suggest a rotating calendar among them to drive both parents to the grocery store, twice weekly, and leave them alone to buy their own purchases? You can foster their independence a long time that way. </p>
<p>My own mom, at 84, still craves a chance to walk through grocery aisles. It’s stimulating, social, keeps her connected to the world. If they want to still go to the store, don’t try to get their food delivered – instead, help them get to the store.</p>
<p>If that’s the real obstacle, or the one they are focussing on anyway, you might solve it and they’ll be ready to consent to moving on from the 4,000 square foot home. At that point, your sibs will be very busy for some time helping that move, but it’ll happen! Unless you find your parents bring up one problem after another as reasons not to move, yet… </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Getting them to move may be what would be best for everyone else in the family, but it’s not necessarily what’s best for them. If they need caregivers and can afford them, that may be the route to go. </p>
<p>If you were looking at the watch and saw one, two, or three years, you might want to see if you could enjoy those years in your own home, not some unfamiliar place that felt hollow and foreign. You might not want to do that until you had very little time left if any at all.</p>
<p>It Is very important to determine what transportation and other services the SR community can or will provide. They differ considerably and even tho the SRs may be able to afford a taxi or other aids they be reluctant to use it but happy to use the “free” shuttle at the SR center. Some will take folks to MD appts while others will also take them shopping. Best to inquire so it is clear what is included. </p>
<p>Have met some SRs who found our that sadly their SR living place does NOT provide transportation so they try catching the bus everywhere, which limits choice of MD to which are on bus route.</p>