The globalization and changes in the demand for labor, and services have redefined employ-ability and have retrenched many who would other wise have been gainfully employed even in their age of seniority. The Aging of the population is a global process and a problem faced by all countries. Poverty results from aging when the person reaches an age considered unemployable and also is not having resources to meet the ever growing needs that aging brings with it. The problem was anticipated decades ago, and the attempt to classify the issue began in the last few decades. The aging society must be viewed in a new light. The new aging reflects a change that must be brought in to the definition of aging and revamp the system with which we have attempted to provide for the elderly over sixty years of age. The vision of the community to the old people will alter the community life style and family values. The interpersonal relationships will also be redefined. The new aging scenario is slowly incorporating these ideas in employment and many other programs. (Torres-Gil, 41)
             In the period prior to 1990 the concepts to aging was quite different and the changes over the last few decades occur because of the increase in the life span of the people and there fore there is a different view of the aged today. However poverty and aging are factors or social ills that plague America now and will continue to do so in the coming years. As far back as in 1992 there were over four million elderly persons in the US who were officially declared poor. At that time the poverty was calculated to be over thirteen percent. The poverty of people as head count tells us the individual numbers, but do not tell anything on the nature of the poverty. For the measure of poverty among the elderly, different set of variables have to be considered. The importance of their living arrangements ought to be taken into account. (Wise, 169)
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