Posted on 05/28/2018 6:06:55 PM PDT by bgill
“As our society becomes more fragmented, and we have more people (especially the elderly) living alone, this will become more common.”
Particularly with people having less and less kids, with many people having no kids.
“Nah. People who live alone communicate by phone, email, direct interface etc.”
Not exactly. “In the United States, approximately 42.6 million adults aged over 45 reported suffering from chronic loneliness in a major 2010 study by the AARP.”
And, “ Britain has appointed a “minister for loneliness” to overcome what Prime ... as one in ten people felt lonely “always or often” and that hundreds of thousands of elderly people hadn’t spoken to a friend or relative in the past month.”
There are people going weeks without talking to anyone. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/britain-appoints-minister-loneliness-tackle-social-isolation-n838291
Yeah, when my parents go I’ll be like your sister. My mom still insists on writing checks for everything.
There was a story a few years back about a man whose skeletal remains were found in a recliner in front of a blown-out television set.
Going the way of Japan?
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