Food for Thought: Understanding Older Food Insecurity

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Russell Sage Foundation, 2025

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While food insecurity among households with children often makes the headlines, a quieter issue that receives much less attention is the food insecurity faced by older adults. In 2023, over nine percent of Americans age sixty and older were food insecure. Without policy intervention, that number is only expected to grow as the U.S. population continues to age. In Food for Thought social policy scholar Colleen M. Heflin and sociologist Madonna Harrington Meyer illuminate the challenges faced by food insecure older adults. Through analysis of national data sets and interviews with lower income older adults, Heflin and Harrington Meyer describe why many older adults do not have enough money to afford food and other essentials. As a result of chronic economic disadvantage, food insecure older adults are often forced to make budget trade-offs between food and other expenses. In these trade-offs, food typically ranks below housing and energy costs and competes with other household bills, such as medical costs, transportation, and phone and internet coverage. While finances play a large role, nonfinancial factors, such as poor physical, cognitive, and mental health, access to healthy food, and transportation challenges, also contribute to food insecurity in old age. In the face of these difficulties, food insecure older adults may go hungry, skip meals, or eat unhealthy foods to help make ends meet.  While SNAP and community-based programs, such as food  pantries and home delivered meals, are intended to help address the issue of food insecurity, they are typically inadequate to address the needs of food insecure older adults. SNAP has enrollment and maintenance procedures that are particularly difficult for older adults to navigate, pays out an insufficient amount of money to cover food costs, and varies greatly by state. Availability of community programs varies by municipality, often lacks nutritious foods that are complementary to health conditions common among older adults, and can be difficult to access due to a lack of reliable transportation, disability, or cost. Heflin and Harrington Meyer advocate for addressing all the issues that increase older adults' risk of food insecurity, not just financial barriers. They suggest updating food insecurity screening tools to include these factors, increasing SNAP benefits and income support for older adults, and other policies to help combat food insecurity in older adults.  Food for Thought highlights the increasingly important issue of food insecurity in old age and lays bare the overlooked challenges faced by food insecure older adults.  &nbsp.…

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Titolo
Food for Thought: Understanding Older Food Insecurity
Autore
Colleen M Heflin
Editore
Russell Sage Foundation
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0871548585
ISBN 13
9780871548580

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