You've seen the fresh new advertising for over 55 communities and you can senior groups: Smiling gold-haired lovers, hands-in-hands, taking walks on seashore, reading-in a comfy den, rocking towards front porch. It's a relaxing, beautiful product sales photo, however, taking walks to the sunset that have a pal is not reality to have a giant portion of the elder population who can ages alone.

For the real life, around one to-third off Baby boomers (today's fifty- to 69-year-olds) is actually solitary, much of whom never ever partnered or are separated (merely 10 percent was in fact widowed), based on a survey throughout the Gerontologist– an increase from fifty percent since 1980.