Fight for survival: Seniors suffer from the high inflation!

Fight for survival: Seniors suffer from the high inflation!

The massive increase in heating costs and food prices brings many people in Austria, such as 78-year-old Caroline from Döbling, into an existential emergency. Caroline struggles with the constant fear of high bills and has to plan her heating habits meticulously because every heating process goes into the money. The inflations are troubled by her, and even simple butter bread becomes a luxury goods. "A rye bread now costs four euros and the butter three," she complains. In addition, inflation has drastically restricted its financial scope, so that it can no longer treat itself to small joys that were a matter of course, reported today.

In the general population, concern is growing that the price increases will continue to stop. Caroline feels abandoned by politics and expresses that the efforts of the new government do not cause a noticeable relief. "It is a Kasperltheater", according to her drastic assessment of the previous measures. To press your heating costs, it turns off the heating at night or only lets it run minimally so as not to wake up in a cold apartment in the morning. This constant arithmetic leads to psychological stress, which is widespread in many people, as ZDF reports.

increased pressure on older people

Older people in particular are affected by this situation, since they often relate to a permanent pension and are unable to react flexibly to rising living costs. The constant concern for the financial future takes sleep and increases pressure in everyday life. Caroline describes the feeling of having to turn every euro as stressful and the associated stress level as overwhelming. The fear of further deterioration in your situation increases emotional pressure. "I don't know how to afford everything," she admits and illustrates that the situation is no longer wearable.