Already half of older Americans are malnourished or at risk of being malnourished, the Senate Aging Committee was told at a recent hearing.
Both the Republican chair and the lead Democrat on Senate Aging, Maine's Susan Collins and Pennsylvania's Bob Casey have warned funding for food programs under the Older Americans Act need to be increased to meet the increase in demand.
Family as a food safety net isn’t as strong as it once was because the invention and popularization of birth control pills during the Boomer’s era has meant fewer children and because like no generation in the past, a significant number of Boomer women have chosen to remain single and make a living on their own, says the namesake star of the PBS series “America’s Generations With Chuck Underwood.
The danger of a senior hunger surge from the move of the Pepsi Generation into retirement is also being exacerbated by dramatically rising health care costs and the perpetual underfunding of programs like Meals on Wheels, asserts Case Western University aging expert Sharona Hoffman“Survival of the fittest” could be a reason that hunger is less for the old-old than the young old, an author of the Feeding America study speculates.
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