An agency must choose to fund either expanded Meals on Wheels deliveries or larger congregate meal sites. From a public-health perspective focusing on frail homebound elders, which choice and justification is strongest?

Fund an expensive luxury restaurant voucher program for seniors that emphasizes gourmet dining in distant locations because upscale dining obviously yields better nutritional outcomes than standardized meal programs.

Fund only congregate meal expansion because all older adults can be expected to travel with minimal assistance and socialization cannot be achieved by home-delivered meals under any circumstances.

Choose neither because community-based meal programs do not influence nutrition or health outcomes; resources should instead be shifted entirely to constructing new senior housing units without meal services.

Fund expanded Meals on Wheels because it directly reaches homebound elders who cannot travel to congregate sites, addressing both nutrition and safety monitoring; however, planners should add volunteer check-ins to mitigate social isolation.