The report, whose authors support one of Mayor de Blasio’s citywide zoning proposals, estimates the actual number is twice as high and finds that the average wait-time is seven years.
City food programs are expanding to address food insecurity among older New Yorkers. But some advocates want a more fundamental fix: A new, public retirement savings program to give seniors more financial power.
Rents are rising for seniors as they are for everyone else. But a fixed income, vulnerability to harassment and age-related physical impairments raise the housing stakes for elder New Yorkers.
Amid the debates about how the minimum wage or better schools might reduce poverty are a million New Yorkers who are largely beyond the reach of those policies. And one in five of them are poor.
“By investing now in programs that will keep seniors safe and healthy in their own communities, we will be saving millions of dollars in future costs to government, ultimately making New York a better place to age.”
In a study issued in June 2014 the Comptroller reported that 65 percent of caregivers said they had to shift their arrival or departure time or take time off from work to care for loved ones.
Experience can be a gem or a fossil. New ideas can be a boost or a fetish. As the city ages and a new generation of leaders emerges, nonprofits have to figure out how to get the best out of everyone.
In their annual Advocacy Day at City Hall, senior citizens pressed Councilmembers to shore up funding for naturally occurring retirement communities and to prevent elder abuse.
Over the past 20 years, New York State’s compassionate release mechanism has seen nearly three times as many applicants die behind bars as won freedom through the program.
New York is graying. What should the next mayor do about it?
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