{"id":13943,"date":"2019-09-03T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T11:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13943"},"modified":"2019-09-03T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T11:55:55","slug":"starving-seniors-how-america-fails-to-feed-its-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13943","title":{"rendered":"Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Laura Ungar and Trudy Lieberman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p>And he has struggled to get enough to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, he ended up in the hospital after burning himself while boiling water for oatmeal. The long stay caused the Memphis vet to fall off a charity\u2019s rolls for home-delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meals on Wheels<\/a>, so he had to rely on others, such as his son, a generous off-duty nurse and a local church to bring him food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany times, I\u2019ve felt like I was starving,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s neighbors that need food too. There\u2019s people at dialysis that need food. There\u2019s hunger everywhere.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/starving-seniors-how-america-fails-to-feed-its-aging\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Laura Ungar and Trudy Lieberman for Kaiser Health News) MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13944,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions\/13944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}