FUNDING of services for elderly Americans has increased steadily during the past decade. Questioning the effectiveness and the necessity of this funding, some critics stress the inefficient and inequitable geographical distribution of social-welfare services and the insufficient expenditures for certain subgroups in the elderly population.1 These criticisms reflect concern for the problems of achieving distributive justice in the services provided to the elderly.2 The federally funded nutrition program, Title III-C, seeks to provide meals to senior citizens primarily on the basis of need, but the legislation was designed so that all elderly are eligible, an attempt at equality of treatment. In this article I examine the social and geographical equity of the federally funded nutrition program in Connecticut and evaluate whether the targeting efforts of the state toward socially disadvantaged and rural elderly have been successful. Evaluation should be a vital part of any program but is frequently avoided as irrelevant or as a less crucial use of time and dollars than direct services to
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Judith W. Meyer (1981) studied this question.