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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 40 million people older than 65 live alone.
These days I live alone on the outskirts of Shanghai in a bizarre villa.
Households are getting smaller more folk live alone, as young people delay marriage and old people live longer.
The experience reminded me that our aging parents, particularly those who live alone, can be very touch-starved.
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He then moved from his Belfast home to live alone in a cottage without electricity or running water.
Seniors say that the greatest benefits of theater-based activities are the improved interpersonal connections, especially since many live alone.
For oldsters who are too cool for Florida and too frail to live alone, there's a third option the independent living community.
An eighth of the population of China is over the age of 60, and more than half of them live alone.
People wanting to live alone trade space for having their own flat.
Many live alone or in tiny spaces in small houses or apartments.
Women who live alone, or who head households, also face special risks.
The other circumstance when long term care insurance is vital is when you live alone and are highly independent (which then translates into isolated).
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Millions of aging parents live alone and no family is nearby.
If your aging parent must live alone, has few social contacts and never gets a hug, you can imagine how desperate he or she might get.
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Today, more than fifty per cent of U.S. residents are single, nearly a third of all households have just one resident, and five million adults younger than thirty-five live alone.
He hasn't applied for public housing because he doesn't want to leave his roommates to live alone and expects to spend the rest of his life living in a cage.
The researchers note that people who live alone, are unemployed, are less educated, and were born in the U.S. are all more likely to drink alcohol (and more of it).
What turns this shift from demographic accounting to a social question is the pursuit-of-happiness factor: as a rule, do people live alone because they want to or because they have to?
The study warned that women between the ages of 80 and 89 who live alone and require some type of outward assistance are the most targeted victims of financial abuse in the United States.
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Mr Carruthers told MSPs the care system had never taught him enough home skills and he was "young and naive" and did not have the essential skills to live alone when he left care.
They are insecure, proud of their freedoms but hungry for contact, anxious, frisky, smug, occasionally scared in short, they experience a mixture of emotions that many people, even those who do not live alone, are apt to recognize.
Most young adults (ages 18-34) who live alone gravitate toward urban centers like Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, and they are the fastest-growing group, with five million people today as compared with 500, 000 in 1950.
Even though 28% of the senior citizens live alone (compared with the national average of 17.6%), it is almost unheard of for anyone to be left alone sick - or, worse, to die for lack of attention.
Sharleen McLennon, who also had been homeless and found support with Quarriers, said she had "no idea just how difficult it would be" to live alone and she could not cope with her own house as she did not have the skills required.
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