Posted on September 27, 2011
Food Insecurity Among Older Adults
Food Insecurity Among Older Adults
Food insecurity among older Americans increased at an alarming rate between 2007 and 2009, especially among 40- to 59-year-olds, a report from the AARP Foundation finds. According to Food Insecurity Among Older Adults (162 pages, PDF), rates of food insecurity increased 68 percent for adults between the ages of 40 and 49, 38 percent for those between the ages of 50 and 59, and 25 percent for those age 60 or older. The report also found that whereas food-insecure seniors in the latter category tend to have incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, sharp increases in food insecurity rates for 40- to 49-year-olds and 50- to 59-year-olds were concentrated at higher income levels; that African-American and Latino/Hispanic 50- to 59-year-olds were twice as likely as whites to face the risk of hunger; and that the states with the highest food insecurity rates for all three age groups were largely concentrated in the South, with Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas on all three lists.
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