Often Alone, Not Eating: Older Adults Struggle With Malnutrition

“‘I found out she was putting water on her cereal,’ Mary Kunz says of her former next-door neighbor. Kunz, the 88-year-old mother of four daughters who lives with her husband in upstate New York, says that even though she’d prepare hot meals for her former neighbor, and friends from church would drop off food from time to time, ‘often, her cupboard was bare.’

‘She was too frightened to have Meals on Wheels, to have a stranger come. So it was a bad . . .'”

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