But in the United States, older people are far less likely to live this way – and far more likely to live alone or with only a spouse or partner. In the U.S., 27% of adults ages 60 and older live ...

How do old people feel about the time they spend alone? Instead of just assuming that solitude, for old people, means loneliness and despair, a trio of gerontologists at the University of Haifa in ...

For many, living alone in older age isn't a sentence to isolation but rather an embrace of autonomy, peace, and self-discovery. Here are 13 surprising reasons why older people are choosing to be ...

The number of older Americans living alone is on the rise. Nearly 16 million people aged 65 and older in the US lived solo in 2022, three times as many who lived alone in that age group in the 1960s.