“As our society becomes more fragmented, and we have more people (especially the elderly) living alone, this will become more common.”
Nah. People who live alone communicate by phone, email, direct interface etc. My family is all spread out, but I talk to them more now than when we all lived in the same town.
I expect in another generation, AI robots will allow people to live in their own homes rather than a nursing home.
“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