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The elderly in urban areas, due to the severe difficulties in mobility and transportation, face crippling and disabling hurdles in attempting to secure one basic necessity—food. The findings of this study have far-reaching implications for the design and distribution of technical and social services to the elderly in urban communities—transportation systems and their cost and availability, homemaker services, food stamp awareness and utilization, alternate options in living and eating arrangements, and urban planning to meet human needs.
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Sherman et al. (1973) studied this question.
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