But they are usually offered either as a luxury service or for housebound elderly patients.

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This includes the elderly, those who are housebound or who have limited mobility and do not have a social support network in place to assist with tasks such as food shopping and cooking.

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The people who need it the most are the ones who are not able to get to it - who are housebound because they're already sick, because they're children or they're elderly and they simply can't travel even to get to the food drop.

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