Aging Into Poverty

While one in five of us will need significant assistance with the activities of daily living or long-term care for more than five years, costing as much as $100,000 per year, about 50% of women ages 55 to 66 have no personal retirement savings. Aging Into Poverty spotlights the looming crisis for American women, their families, and communities.

Author Kathy Sharp details the history and public policy decisions that have consigned so many senior women to spend the end of their lives on waiti...