Tag: baby boomers
Saturday morning at a Boston-area farmers market. While hunger has eased among older Americans, millions still worry about having enough to eat from day to day. A new report by two non-profits – Feeding America and the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger – found that food insecurity among people 60 and older declined by…
The value of the informal care provided to the nation’s elderly, often by adult children, exceeds $500 billion a year – more than double the price tag for the formal care of nursing homes and home health aides. Only 6 percent of Americans are, at any given time, regularly helping parents who have deteriorating healt…
