This is one of the things that I constantly ask my dad about, he’s in a retirement community.
I ask him all the time to have someone with no family to come share our table for a meal. He and his GF both tell me there are very few people with no family that comes to see them or have abandoned them.
That absolutely breaks my heart because I can’t imagine ever letting my parents or siblings be alone in that kind of hour of need.
Retirement communities usually have structured activities and myriad opportunities to make friends. Anyone who is alone in such a setting probably wants to be.