KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — With brutally cold temperatures on Monday, community members have been checking in on the elderly to make sure they are safe from the cold.
As their population rises in East Tennessee, the Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee Mobile Meals program said homebound seniors are one of the most at-risk communities when it comes to frigid temperatures.
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As winter approaches, Mobile Meals Program Director Sarah Keel said they will be delivering to hundreds of clients across the area.
“Most of the older adults that we serve live alone in their homes,” she said. “They don’t have anyone checking on them or in the home to kind of, you know, be that connection for them. So what our volunteers do is really important.”…