Summary: AARP says the number of older Americans seriously delinquent on loans jumped more than 450 percent in the last five years. Some 3.5 million older homeowners are underwater on their mortgages. Older African Americans and Hispanics are the hardest hit. A look at how the mortgage crisis has effected the country's senior citizens and left millions of them fiscally vulnerable in retirement. With Susan Reinhard, senior vice president and director for the AARP Public Policy Institute, and Vicki King Taitano, director of the Foreclosure Legal Assistance Project, Maryland Legal Aid Bureau.
