Older Americans are struggling to afford food at an alarming rate

At a time when retirees should be enjoying leisure activities and travel, they’re instead grappling with putting food on the table.

According to a new study featured in the Journal of the American Medicine Association (JAMA), food insecurity has greatly increased over the past 20 years for American families with adults over the age of 60.

The researchers discovered that 1 in 8 families with older adults (12.5%) struggled with food insecurity between 1999 and 2003. However, this number now sits at 1 in 4 families (23.1%) between 2015 and 2019.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as a household’s socio-economic situation that leads to “limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”

Older people can’t catch a break right now. Their Social Security checks aren’t keeping up with inflation and may even be cut in the next decade.

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