Food for thought understanding older adult food insecurity
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture measures food insecurity by focusing on whether households have enough money to purchase food during the last twelve months. Among households containing adults sixty and older in 2022, 8.7 percent were classified as food insecure, and this proportion rises to 29....
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New York :
Russell Sage,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- The Need to Address Older Adult Food Insecurity
- Measuring Old Age Food Insecurity in the United States
- The Economic Roots of Old Age Food Insecurity
- Beyond Income: Compounding Problems for Food Insecurity
- Understanding the Limits of SNAP
- Understanding the Limits of Community-Based Free and Subsidized Food Programs
- Policy Recommendations to Address Old Age Food Insecurity.
