A new sur­vey, recently released by The Senior Cit­i­zens League (TSCL), found that senior cit­i­zens are being forced to make dras­tic cuts to their med­ical and food bud­gets due to the recession.

The sur­vey, con­ducted over a three-​​​​month period ear­lier this year, had more than 1,040 respon­dents aged 65 and over. Findings include:

• 42 per­cent of seniors had either post­poned fill­ing their pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions or were…