"The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Senior Hunger in America” is the most comprehensive national research study to look exclusively at senior hunger in the United States. According to Dr. Eugene Smolensky, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, and renowned economist who reviewed the study independently, it is a “first class report. . .a national study, using up to the minute methodology and the latest available data which finally takes us beyond anecdote, and small and partial studies, to a reliable picture of [senior] hunger nationwide.”
Maxim Home Care
“Research suggests that 700,000 to 1.2 million elderly people (ie, 4% of all adults older than 65) are subjected to elder mistreatment in the United States and that there are 450,000 new cases annually.”
