Year of the Horse
By Mavis Fodness, reporterJanuary 07, 2026Twenty-one percent of U.S. adults ages 50 and older (about 24 million people) now live alone. They are “aging alone because they live without a spouse or partner or anyone else under the same roof,” according to an AARP magazine article I read from beginning to end, because I’m now one of these statistics. As 2026 began, I’m among the growing number of people aging solo due to a death of a…
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