More than half of older women living alone are in a precarious financial situation: either poor according to federal poverty standards or with incomes too low to pay for essential expenses. For single men, the share is 45%. (COLLEEN MICHAELS/DREAMSTIME/TNS)
By Judith Graham Kaiser Health News Fran Seeley, 81, doesn’t see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she’s uncomfortably close.…