Senior Poverty In the News:
Aging In Place May Be A Luxury You Can't Afford, Marketplace, Mar 2024
The Ingredients of Unequal Aging - Housing, Income and Health, Boston University, 2024
The Graying of American Debt, Next Avenue, Mar 2024
6 Key Signs Middle Class Gen Xers May Be Poor in Retirement, Yahoo Finance, Feb 2024
Aging Population Puts Pressure on Healthcare Labor, Axios, Mar 2024
Broke Boomers Are Moving In with their Boomer Kids Who Are Seething, Fortune, Mar 2024
10 Unexpected Ways Life Changes When You Become a Caregiver, Care. Dec 2023
How Caregivers are Using Smart Tech to Help Aging Parents, The Verge, Mar 2014
Caregiving is not only a labor of love - its labor. It's work, The Hill, Nov 2023
Smart home devices that can help seniors age in place, East Idaho News.com, Dec 2023
Do We Simply Not Care About Older People, MedPage Today, Mar 2024
MediCare Advantage Is Bad for Patients and Bad for Investors, Stat, Feb 2024
Meet the Forgotten Middle of Americans Over 75 Facing a Rocky Retirement, Business Insider, Feb 2024
Credit for Care Act Offers Financial Relief for Strained Family Caregivers, AARP, Jan 2024
Inside the Rash of Abrupt Nursing Home Closures: The Key Factors at Play, Skilled Nursing News, Feb 2024
A Novel Elder Care Robot Could Soon Provide Personal Assistance Enhancing Seniors Quality of Life, Tech Explore, Feb 2024
Fintech Can Help Caregivers If Barriers to Adoption are Addressed, AARP, Feb 2024
Social Security Has An Income Inequality Problem and It Can't Be Swept Under the Rug Any Longer, Motley Fool Feb 2024
Think You'll Work Til 70? Good Luck. Why Most of Us Retire Earlier. USA Today, Jan 2024
Grandparents Are Getting Older on Average. Here's Why That Matters. Huffington Post, Jan 2024
The Census Bureau sees an older, more diverse America in 2100 in three immigration scenarios, AP, Nov 2023
Summit nursing homes testing robots to address staff shortages, Cleveland.com, Dec 2024
Younger Baby Boomers face deep shortfall in retirement savings, Financial Planning, Nov 2023
Medicare Advantage programs disadvantage many elderly and disabled people, Truthout Dec 2024
Women and families deserve more than policies that don't deliver. What happens when "the village" it takes to raise a child never shows up? The Cut Dec 2023. (Applicable also to gaps in elder care services)
Gen X has the largest wealth gap of any generation and it means that the American Dream of retirement is going to be a nightmare for them, Fortune, Dec 2024
So you think working longer will fix your lack of retirement savings, Globe & Mail, Dec 2024
Biden administration announces $37 billion in funding to benefit Seniors and disabled Americans, The Hill, Dec 2023
The economic costs of family caregiving, Next Avenue, Dec 2023
How streamlined tech is helping health care workers thrive, Fortune, January 2024
Superannuation Drives Wealth Inequality as the Gap Between Richest and Poorest Blows Out. ABC Australia, Jan 2024
Left Out in the Cold. The number of people aged 80 and over is growing faster than the housing they need and can afford, raising concern they’ll end up on the street. Next Avenue, Jan 2024
Private industry is offering a subscription-based family care plan.
I Wish I had Known That No One is Going to Help Me, NY Times, Nov 2023
Deny, Deny, Deny, By Rejecting Claims, Medicare Advantage Programs are Threatening Rural Hospitals, NBC News, Nov 2023
Patients Don't Know How to Navigate the US Healthcare System and It's Costing Them, Vox Nov 2023
Millions of Older Adults Needlessly Live In Poverty, Next Avenue, Nov 2023
I'm One of Millions Struggling to Care for Aging Parents, LA Times, Nov 2023
The Physical Tool on a Caregivers Body, Next Avenue, Nov 2023
Whose Life Expectancy Is Dropping? Robert Reich, Nov 2023
How to Fix America's Broken Guardianship System, Next Avenue Oct 2023
How to manage your expectations as a caregiver. AARP Oct 2023
Why is the US the Only Country that Ties Your Health Insurance to Your Job, Vox Oct 2023
Why Women Outlive Men but Save Less for Retirement, Next Avenue, Oct 2023
Dementia Takes a Toll on Finances and Family, Futurity, Oct 2023
New Federal Rule Presents States with Important Opportunity to Enroll More Low-Income Americans in Medicare Savings Plans, AARP Oct 2023
Gray divorce is most often initiated by women - even though it can crush their finances (Market Watch, Sept 2023)
Number of older adults facing homelessness on the rise in Massachusetts (WCVB Sept 2023)
More than half of older Americans will need long term care. Many can't afford the rising costs. (CNN Finance Sept 2023)
The time gap in unpaid caregiving costs women an extra $321.56 billion a year (CNBC Sept 2023)
State (California) becomes first to strip Medicaid asset limit (McKnights Senior Living, August 2023)
Price of elder care soars as demand increases, baby boomers age (The Hill, August 2023)
For the first time, traditional Medicare will pay to support family caregivers (Forbes, August 2023) [Biden administration initiatives]
Nearing retirement, America's lower middle classes faces increasingly bad health (US News, Aug 2023)
The US retirement system is broken and needs to be put back together differently (Market Watch, August 2023)
Have this talk with your parents now to reduce heartache later (CNN August, 2023)
Retirement savings: Late boomers are on the brink (Yahoo Finance, August 2023)
Washington state's new payroll tax helps fund long-term care. Could it be a model for the nation? (USNews, July 2023)
Retirees Are Underestimating How Long They Will Live (The Hill, July 2023)
Why More Older Adults Are Living In Poverty & How You Can Help (AARP July 2023)
Medicaid Payments for Home Health Aides Wrankles Home Health Companies (Axios July 2023)
Families Fear for Future of MediCaid Caregiver Program (PBS, June 2023)
Here's the New Magic Number for Living Comfortably in Retirement (Money Talks News, June 2023)
Let's Recognize that Care Work Is the Labor That Makes All Other Labor Possible (Truthout, May 2023)
Mandates Are Not the Solution to our Growing Nursing Home Crisis (The Hill, May 2023)
Working Longer Is Not a Viable Solution to US Retirement Crisis (Common Dreams, May 2023)
Time to Have the Talk. How Seniors Can Avoid Financial Ruin by Planning Healthcare Now (USA Today, May 2023)
America Is Facing A Retirement Crisis and Here's Why (The Motley Fool, May 2023)
Reckless Spending & Inflation Are Forcing Many Americans to UnRetire (USA Today, May 2023)
Nearly Half of Boomers Have No Retirement Savings (The Hill, May 2023)
How Living Like the Golden Girls Can Help Older Adults Thrive (Care.com)
What is the Future of Retirement Communities (Senior Marketing Collective)
Most Seniors in America Can't Afford Nursing Homes or Assisted Living (New York Post, April 2023)
Medicare Advantage Is Not an Advantage for Many Seniors with Cancer (The Hill, April 2023)
The Cost of Senior Care is Rising, While Care Givers are Drowning Without Help (CNN, April 2023)
The Sandwich Generation, Taking Care of Children and Parents (American Equity)
Millions of Older Americans Are Nearing Retirement Without a Penny in Savings (CBS News, April 2023)
Gray Divorces Can Upend Your Retirement Plans (Kiplinger)
Biden's New Executive Order Could Expand Access to Child Care and Long Term Care (19th News, April 2023)
Working Ourselves to Death: Why Increasing the Retirement Age Is Bad (Portside, April 2023)
New AARP Report Finds Family Caregivers Provide $600 Billion in Unpaid Care Across the US (AARP March 2023)
Overlooked and Side Lined (CWI Labs March 2023)
Why Is Retiring So Hard? Turns Out the Money Game Is Rigged (Wealthtender, April 2023)
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage Plans Use Algorithms to Cut Off Care for Seniors In Need (Sta, March 2023)
Make Social Security Bigger, Not Smaller, to Help Solve Retirement Crisis (Yahoo Finance, January 2023)
Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage (Common Dreams, January 2023)
Pressure Mounts for Hospice Reform (ProPublica, January 2023)
My Grandmother Died at Home Just As She Wanted, It Cost $145,00 (WBUR, February 2023)
More than Half of US Nursing Homes are Unprofitable - And It's About to Get a Lot Worse (Quartz, February 2023)
Retirees May Face this Hassle with Medicare Advantage, Survey Finds (AOL February 2023)
Iowa Nursing Homes Closing at an Alarming Rate (KCRG, February 2023)
Shared Rooms Helped Fuel Covid 19 Deaths in Nursing Homes, But Are a Million New Rooms Possible? (AARP January 2023)
Baby Boomers are Moving Into Communal Housing for a Surprising Reason (MSN February 2023)
How to Prevent Elder Financial Exploitation (First Republic Bank, December 2022)
A Practical Resource Guide for Direct Care Workforce State Advocacy (PHI, February 2023)
The Fastest Growing Homeless Population? Seniors. (CalMatters, February 2023)
Around the World, New Solutions to Fight Poverty in Aging (AARP, February 2023)
Older Americans Increasingly Struggling to Save for Retirement (CBS, February 2022)
Valuing the Invaluable 2023 Update: Strengthening Supports for Family Caregivers (AARP Public Policy Institute, March 2023)
Seattle Is Now Building More ADU's than Single Family Homes (Seattle Times, March 2023)
More Older People Are Opting to Age In Their Homes (Washingtonian March 2023)
Pummeled by the cost of living, seniors are looking for roommates (The Hill, December 2022)
Sacrificing for Long Term Care. Long-term care will become an increasingly elusive need for aging baby boomers in the next decade (Axios, December 2022)
What is the Medicaid Look Back Period? (Yahoo Finance, December 2022)
Caregivers need help. Michigan is slowly finding a way. (The Detroit News, December 2022)
Why 'work longer' isn't great retirement advise. (Market Watch, December 2022)
How hospice became a for-profit hussle." (The New Yorker, December 2022)
'This is a crisis.' Why more workers need access to retirement savings. (CNBC, December 2022)
Who will care for "kinless seniors?" NY Times, December 2022
"Sandwich Generation" study shows challenges of caring for both kids and aging parents." (University of Michigan Health Lab, December 2022)
"I don't fall, I slide: older people rebel to keep sense of control, research finds" (Guardian December 2022)
Half of Americans Over 50 Are Now Caregivers (Health Day, November 2022)
Men accumulate more wealth than women at the point of retirement On average, women are expected to reach retirement with just 74% of the wealth accumulated by men. (Benefits Pro, November 2022)
Homeless shelters are seeing more senior citizens with no place to live (NPR, November 2022)
Majority of Adults Over 50 report being Caregivers for other seniors (The Hill November 2022)
Facing Limited Housing in San Luis Obispo, Seniors must downsize or pay high prices (The Tribune, November 2022)
PACE is transforming the lives of older adults and their families (Boston Globe)
Who Is Going to Care for Me? (Elder Options October 2022)
More Seniors Are Being Pushed Into Poverty and Here's Why (Market Watch October 2022)
A Growing Number of Grandparents are Raising Grandkids and it's Sending Them Into Poverty (USA Today, Oct 2022)
The Alternative to Working Ourselves to Death (The Nation, Sept 2022)
Fewer Children Faced Food Insecurity Last Year But More Elderly Americans Did (CNN, Sept 2022)
While Inflation Takes a Toll on Seniors, Billions of Dollars in Benefits Go Unused (Including SNAP and other programs, Sept 2022)
72% of Middle Income Older Adults Won't Be Able to Afford Assisted Living by 2033. (McKnights Senior Living, Sept 2022)
Fed Chair Powell Warned of 'pain' to come. Seniors are Already Feeling It (CNN News, Sept 2022)
The Age Wave is Coming and Tech Companies are Getting Ready (Boston Globe Sept 2022)
A Million More Seniors Fell Into Poverty Last Year (USA Today, Sept 2022)
The Place in "Aging In Place"; Housing Equity In Late Life (Hastings Center, Sept 2022)
Seniors are stuck home alone as health aides flee for higher paying jobs (Sept 2022)
From floods to slime: Mobile home residents say landlords make millions, neglect them.
Does Medicare pay for Assisted Living? Medicare covers a range of health services to beneficiaries in any living situation. However, like most health insurance plans, Medicare doesn’t pay for long-term care costs of residency at an assisted living facility or day-to-day custodial care.
Planning for Retirement: Strategies to overcome challenges (for women)
The True Cost of Aging Index shows many seniors can't afford basic necessities.
The nuclear family was a mistake. The shift from bigger and interconnected extended families to smaller and detached nuclear families ultimately led to a familial system that liberates the rich and ravages the working-class and the poor.
Federal Report finds Medicare Advantage plans often deny necessary care
Despite Seniors Strong Desire to Age in Place, the Village Model Remains a Boutique Option
Older Adults Say Temporary Boosts to Nutrition Program Benefits Are Critical to Health, Well-Being
The New Golden Girls: Baby Boomers are moving in together to save money
New federal funds spur the expansion of home care services for the elderly and disabled
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America's elderly
America's retirement savings system is deeply flawed, can it be fixed?