{"id":20013,"date":"2022-07-25T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20013"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:41:12","slug":"true-cost-of-aging-index-shows-many-seniors-cant-afford-basic-necessities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20013","title":{"rendered":"\u2018True Cost of Aging\u2019 Index Shows Many Seniors Can\u2019t Afford Basic Necessities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fran Seeley, 81, doesn\u2019t see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she\u2019s uncomfortably close.
Each month, Seeley, a retired teacher, gets $925 from Social Security and a $287 disbursement from an individual retirement account. To make ends meet, she\u2019s taken out a reverse mortgage on her Portland, Maine, home that yields $400 monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, Seeley has been able to live on this income \u2014 about $19,300 a year \u2014 by carefully monitoring her spending and drawing on limited savings. But should her excellent health worsen or she need assistance at home, Seeley doesn\u2019t know how she\u2019d pay for those expenses. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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