"More than a hundred years later, after the virtual eradication of elderly poverty, a powerful political movement would materialize with the mission of returning to the hands-off social policies that made the poorhouse the nation's only refuge for the jobless, the aged, the infirm and the disabled...."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/29/the-poorhouse-aunt-winnie_n_802338.html