Forty-seven percent of California’s older residents cannot afford to pay for basic necessities, including health care, food and housing, according to a report released on Tuesday, the San Jose Mercury News reports (de Sa, San Jose Mercury News, 2/24). The official federal poverty index, which is used to determine how government aid is allocated, does not account for regional differences in the cost of living and relies on an outdated methodology that does not reflect true costs, Susan Smith, director of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development’s California for Economic Security project, said (O’Brien, Contra Costa Times, 2/23).
Researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research and ICCED developed the Elder Economic Security Standard to assess the true financial need to cover cost of living in California (Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle, 2/24). The index accounts for the costs of housing, food, health care and transportation based on geography and other factors.
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