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Quiz: How Does Hunger Affect Aging Adults?

Test your knowledge of the problem

AARP Staff

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Published May 25, 2021

10 Questions

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Quiz: How Does Hunger Affect Aging Adults?

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 "question" : "Older adults without access to sufficient quantities of healthful food have higher rates of which health problems?\n",
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 "answer" : "Diabetes",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Obesity",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Depression",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "All of the above",
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 "question" : "Older adults may have difficulties purchasing nutritious, healthy food because:\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "They lack transportation",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "It costs too much",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Reduced vision makes it difficult to read labels.",
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 "answer" : "All of the above",
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}, {
 "question" : "What is the most important factor that influences where adults age 65-plus shop for food?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Cost",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Location",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Availability of nutritious food",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "All of the above",
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}, {
 "question" : "The rate of hunger among older adults was 6.3 percent in 2007 before the Great Recession. What was the rate in 2018?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "5. 1 percent",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "7.3 percent",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "12.3 percent",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "19.6 percent",
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}, {
 "question" : "Meals on Wheels, the national network of 5,000 independently run local programs committed to helping nourish older Americans in need, currently serves 2.5 million people. Of those served, approximately how many older adults are veterans?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "50,000",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "100,000",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "500,000",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "300,000",
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}, {
 "question" : "What is the reason that so many older adults in the U.S. are at risk for hunger?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "They have higher medical expenses",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Mobility problems make it hard to buy and prepare food",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Most rely on Social Security as their largest source of income",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "All of the above",
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}, {
 "question" : "Three out of five older adults who qualify for food stamps — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — do not participate in the program. About 5.2 million older Americans miss out on this vital benefit because:\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "They lack transportation",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "They are not aware of the program or their qualifications for inclusion",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "They fear being judged by others at the grocery store checkout counter",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "All of the above",
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}, {
 "question" : "The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of Americans to turn to food banks for the first time. About how many Americans experienced food insecurity in 2020?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "About 1 in 7 ",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "About 1 in 10",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "About 1 in 12",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "About 1 in 20",
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}, {
 "question" : "AARP regularly sponsors meal-packing events to help combat senior hunger. What is the highest number of meals its volunteers have packed in a single day?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "200,000",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "375,000",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "1.2 million",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "2 million",
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}, {
 "question" : "What is the annual cost of hunger and lack of access to nutritious food to the U.S. health care system?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "$20 million",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "$25 million",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "500 million",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "$130.5 billion",
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