ELDERLY POVERTY: A Project I'm Researching

If you run across this blog, I'm working on a project collecting facts and anecdotes about the rising rates of senior citizens living in poverty in the US.  It's a real shocker of a problem.  As much as our society and government try to keep this demographic group invisible, it's getting harder to do.

People live longer, ladies live longer than their husbands, and pensions stop when husbands die or a small remainder death benefit might continue for the widow.

E-mail me any stories or anecdotes you may have experienced.  Good night.

Please Send Me Your Pain Stories

CHRONIC PAIN IN THE US.

                              DENIAL OF TREATMENT FOR PAIN IS AN EPIDEMIC NOW; THE HECK WITH ALL THE PRESS ON THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC THAT DOES NOT RELATE TO THE HONEST PAIN PATIENT WHO HAS BEEN LUMPED INTO THE EPIDEMIC OF OPIOID ABUSE GROUP.
     BUY MY BOOK TO GET A REAL LOOK AT THE POLITICAL AND CRIMINAL REALITIES THAT PREVENT YOU FROM OBTAINING YOUR PAIN MEDS.  IT'S ON
AMAZON.

My most recent insult with the VA doctor is that my dose was decreased to an amount lower than I need to keep my pain from overriding my other thoughts and activities.  When pain rules, when your movements exacerbate pain, one's life is miserable.

The application for a California handicap placard must be signed off by a physician with a diagnosis.  I have had several doctors and mid-level practitioners over the years for chronic pain; within the past four years, I would say that four doctors have treated me: surgery, 2 dozen injection treatments into the lumbar area, primary doctors involved, pain specialists.  My point today is that none of my providers would sign off for a handicap placard for me.  My records support it, my life needs it, and the providers are unwilling to help in that small regard.  Has this happened to you?