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Elder Economic Security Initiative™

The Elder Economic Security Initiative™ is an exciting new initiative that seeks to build economic security for older adults through a multi-pronged approach that includes organizing, advocacy and research. The Initiative enables policy makers, aging advocates and others to develop policies and programs to help seniors age with dignity while promoting their economic security. A key component of the initiative is the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index, a measure of well-being that determines the income and supports needed for older adults to live modestly depending on their health and life circumstances.

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Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Personal Profiles

Profile: Reema Zakoor

Reema was born in 1935 and raised in the Middle East. She married at the age of 15, and became a seamstress and homemaker, raising seven children.

In 1990, when Reema was 70 years old, her husband passed away.  Reema could no longer live independently and moved from the Middle East to the United States to live with her son and his family in the suburbs of Chicago.

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