Скачать или смотреть Seniors gather at restaurants for meals in a program designed to feed social lives, end loneliness

(2 Sep 2023)
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Goffstown, New Hampshire – 2 August 2023
1. Wide of Debbie LaBarre and other seniors eating lunch at the White Birch Eatery in a Dine Out Club program operated by Meals on Wheels
HEADLINE TEXT: Seniors flock to restaurants to feed social lives
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Debbie LaBarre, Senior Dining Out to Socialize:
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"I can honestly say that me coming out 3 to 5 times a week has helped me lose weight because I don't eat the nasty food I used to because it's a program that's set up to be, uh, healthy – at low carbs, low calories, low everything, low sodium to help the elderly. So, I found that it's better food than what I've been cooking."
3. Tilt-up pan close up of LaBarre eating her lunch
4. A waitress uses a cellphone to scan the Quick Response code on a Dine Out Club card to charge for a meal at White Birch Eatery

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Merrimack, New Hampshire – 17 August 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Eriquezzo, Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County:
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"We created this dine out opportunity in New Hampshire with people 60 and older in mind. Right now, since the pandemic, isolation of people 60 and older has gone up an unprecedented amount – 200% – and that's been sustained since the pandemic. So, we needed to come up with a solution to help get people out of the house and socializing."

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Goffstown, New Hampshire – 2 August 2023
6. A Dine Out Club member greets peers as they wait to be shown to their table at the restaurant
7. LaBarre and her sister go to their restaurant table
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Debbie LaBarre, Senior Dining Out to Socialize:
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"I just moved into my apartment after having my house for 30 years and I started the ... I wasn't depressed because I don't get depressed, I depress others. It was kind of lonely for a while. I was sitting there and I'd watch TV, eat, I was kind of lonely."
9. LaBarre and fellow Dine Out Club members having their lunch at a restaurant
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Debbie LaBarre, Senior Dining Out to Socialize:
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"Then we came to this place for a meeting for Meals on Wheels to find out it wasn't. So, all of a sudden, there's about, I want to say there's 60 apartments there. There's probably more than half are on this program. So, we all see more of each other here than we do in the apartment."
11. Various of a White Birch Eatery chef at work in the kitchen

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Merrimack, New Hampshire – 17 August 2023
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Eriquezzo, Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County:
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"The way the Dine Out Club works is we partner with local restaurants. Our dietician works on a menu of items that meet the recommended daily allowance for nutrition and seniors 60 and older can sign up at no cost and get a dine out club card, go to one of these participating restaurants, order a nutritious meal and socialize."

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Goffstown, New Hampshire – 2 August 2023
13. Over-the-shoulder medium of LaBarre signing on a new Dine Out Club member
14. Wide of the owner of White Birch Eatery Cyndee Williams talking to a client on front of her business
15. Close up of signage at the restaurant soliciting donations to the Dine Out Club
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Cyndee Williams, Owner, White Birch Eatery:
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17. Tracking shot of Williams picking up meals from the kitchen and taking them to serve to members of the Dine Out Club
18. Williams serves meals to members of the Dine Out Club


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