Hidden costs for the ‘hidden poor’
February 29, 2016
Hidden poor seniors said they felt depressed “some, most or all of the time” at a rate of 10.6 percent, compared to 3.4 percent of those above the Elder Index.
iStock.com/NADOFOTOS
Steven Wallace (department of Community Health Sciences at Fielding School of Public Health) is the lead author of a new fact sheet by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research reporting that in high-cost areas of California, people with incomes much higher than the federal poverty level struggle to maintain a basic quality of life and may experience feelings of depression.
Read more at UCLA Newsroom