I'll try to take a bite of that one, because I don't think there's a magic bullet there either. But I think if you look at the elderly poor, which was where I took your question started from, they start poor younger. The causes of poverty are interlinked with growing up in poverty and poor education.
I come from a province where there are areas where 40% of children will graduate from high school. Now, in an age of service base and information, knowledge translation, and all those good things, someone who hasn't completed grade 12 is condemned almost from the get-go. There are better experts out there than I am on how you deal with poverty. Poverty and education and the social determinants of health underpin health. There's a crystal-clear link between poverty and poor health, between low education, low housing standards, and poor health. You can't argue those figures. How you choose to deal with that is outside the realm of physical medicine. But if you do not address it, then it could be argued you're tinkering around the edges of the problem.