elderly poor
Impoverished senior citizens
The elderly poor are aged people living in poverty—those who have reached old age without adequate financial resources.
The phrase typically appears in policy discussions and social services contexts: Programs for the elderly poor include subsidized housing and meal delivery.
Unlike "poor elderly," which emphasizes age first, elderly poor frames poverty as the defining condition.
- agedAdvanced in years
- senior citizenAged person, typically retired
- old ageAdvanced years of life
- destituteUtterly without means
- frailWeak and breakable
pension · indigent · needy · vulnerable · living alone · nursing home · end of life · social security · fixed income · struggling · welfare · infirm · senior · retirement · lonely · forgotten · threadbare · subsistence