{"id":14141,"date":"2019-09-30T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14141"},"modified":"2019-09-30T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:34:53","slug":"food-insecurity-among-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14141","title":{"rendered":"Food insecurity among seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one in 10 enrollees in Medicare 65 years of age and older, and four in 10 enrollees younger than 65 with long-term disabilities experience food insecurity, the inability to get adequate food for financial reasons. The issue of food insecurity has emerged as a healthcare concern and is now on the radar of health insurance companies. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2019\/09\/30\/why-medicare-is-targeting-seniors-who-dont-get-the-food-they-need\/#392da0fe4168\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fruits-and-veggies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7796\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fruits-and-veggies-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fruits-and-veggies-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fruits-and-veggies.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The\u00a0link 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; socialsecurityreport.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 socialsecurityreport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one in 10 enrollees in Medicare 65 years of age and older, and four in 10 enrollees younger than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141","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=14141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14142,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions\/14142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}