title: Poverty functions and the aged population.
abstract: This article examines trends in poverty among the elderly in the United States from two perspectives.  "First, we are interested in changes that took place in the magnitude, characteristics and incidence of poverty within this sector, as a result of the functioning of the economy as well as the poverty programme during the past decade.  Our second primary objective is to present analytical models of the severity of poverty and use these models to describe techniques that might be employed in evaluating ways of alleviating poverty in one category of the aged poor where it seems most acute and most intractable, i.e. aged women living alone."
authors.forename: E W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Owens
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005191:Family Characteristics; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011203:Poverty; D012946:Social Welfare; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Americas; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Conditions; Economic Factors; Family And Household; Households; Macroeconomic Factors; North America; Northern America; One Person Household--women; Population; Population Characteristics; Poverty; Social Welfare; Socioeconomic Factors; United States