They become baggers at Publix in the south.

My 75 year old relative is working at a department store in the south.

Anonymous wrote:It's not a happy existence. If you don't have family, hope you die before you get old.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Depends. Our 4 sets of grandparents lived on social security. Grandpa got like $1800 and grandma got $1100. Their house was paid off. They lived well off of social security and didn’t tap their savings until grandpa died. I don’t know the specifics of dhs grandparents’ amounts but I know there is no other savings and they only have social security. They live in a cheaper city and their houses are paid off.

One grandma bought into a senior community. I think it was 300k. She then moved into a ranch home in the community. Lived there for 15 years and then moved into the apartment style living on the property after that (for 10 years or so). She couldn’t drive and needed more help. And then she moved to the nursing home part. When her savings were completely gone, Medicaid paid. She was happy and loved the friends.

LOL

Little sisters of the poor take in the elderly who don't have money or the means to get the care they need. They have a house in DC.

Subsidized 55 plus housing. Some are decent places but have long waitlists.

My parent both had not a dollar in savings and lived exclusively off social security their last few years. Actually, my dad worked until age 80. Then he was unable to work and lived exclusively off SS. My mom was 20 years younger but unwell. She was 64 when he died and lived another 9 years off SS alone.

She moved into public senior housing around age 67. It was a nice one bedroom apt and her rent was a sliding scale based on her monthly income. It wasn’t bad at all, but she was in a wait list for 2 years. Then, when her dementia got bad, we had her admitted to assisted living 5)-5 would take Title-19, which is CT’s version of Medicaid. They took her whole check each month and left her with like $75 spending $ a month. But everything was paid for...food, transportation, housing. It was a really nice place. It was a 40-hr a week job for a while for me to navigate the various social service agencies and paperwork to get her in there.

Then she got sicker and needed skilled nursing care, that was a nightmare b/c the places that would take her as a Medicaid patient were hellholes. Luckily, she ended up having a long hospitalization and then was accepted to a nursing home under Medicare, which pays a higher rate than Medicaid. After her Medicare days ran out, they couldn’t kick her out so she stayed under Medicaid.

Again, it was a full time job for me navigating all this for a while. I also subsidized things like medication and vitamins not covered, monthly haircuts, that kid of thing. I am ashamed now that I didn’t do more. I had gotten married and just bought our first home and was pregnant, and I was really pinching pennies. I pinched them too tightly and wish I had treated her more. I couldn’t afford, either financially not mentally, to have her closer to me; her mental illness was really hard to manage.

In most states, there are social supports for destitute elderly people. But you have to work HARD to access and activate them and navigate many layers of bureaucracy and paperwork. The social workers at out local hospital were godsends...they told me about a number of programs that I wouldn’t have known about from just internet searching.

My parents divorced just shy of 50 years.. he ran off with someone younger than me.

Mom moved to her small midwestern hometown and lived in subsidized housing on her Social Security. She was surrounded by childhood friends and had an active social life. She made it on very little money and even left me money when she died.

Dad initially lived in a trailer park when girlfriend wised up and kicked him out. Then he went bankrupt. We bought a condo in Florida him for 16 grand and he payed the maintenance and the rest of his bills on Social Security. We sold it for 40 grand when he died.

Anonymous wrote:Depends. Our 4 sets of grandparents lived on social security. Grandpa got like $1800 and grandma got $1100. Their house was paid off. They lived well off of social security and didn’t tap their savings until grandpa died. I don’t know the specifics of dhs grandparents’ amounts but I know there is no other savings and they only have social security. They live in a cheaper city and their houses are paid off.

One grandma bought into a senior community. I think it was 300k. She then moved into a ranch home in the community. Lived there for 15 years and then moved into the apartment style living on the property after that (for 10 years or so). She couldn’t drive and needed more help. And then she moved to the nursing home part. When her savings were completely gone, Medicaid paid. She was happy and loved the friends.

The question asked about old people with no money. You answered that your grandmother had 300k!!!! Do you think that’s no money?!?

It's not a happy existence. If you don't have family, hope you die before you get old.

Depends. Our 4 sets of grandparents lived on social security. Grandpa got like $1800 and grandma got $1100. Their house was paid off. They lived well off of social security and didn’t tap their savings until grandpa died. I don’t know the specifics of dhs grandparents’ amounts but I know there is no other savings and they only have social security. They live in a cheaper city and their houses are paid off.

One grandma bought into a senior community. I think it was 300k. She then moved into a ranch home in the community. Lived there for 15 years and then moved into the apartment style living on the property after that (for 10 years or so). She couldn’t drive and needed more help. And then she moved to the nursing home part. When her savings were completely gone, Medicaid paid. She was happy and loved the friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do older people living on social security live if they have no additional money and aren’t close w family to take them in?

A lot of them live in public housing in NYC.

And then they go to nursing homes.

Anonymous wrote:Where do older people living on social security live if they have no additional money and aren’t close w family to take them in?

A lot of them live in public housing in NYC.

Trailer parks. Then they die in squalor.

Where do older people living on social security live if they have no additional money and aren’t close w family to take them in?