Ask for money from her husband?!? Get a clue--he should've offered it long ago. He's a beneficiary of a deeply uneven patriarchal economic system. Please wake up -- getting a job as an older women is incredibly difficult due to age discrimination, and the job you are likely to get will drain you of energy, health, and longevity, and your husband will still expect you to do the lion's share of the housework after you get home. Is this starving--no. But she isn't comfortable, that's the point of the article. Defining poverty as being out on the street isn't the point.