Could Senior Home Sharing Be an Alternative to Long-Term Care?

The likelihood of living alone increases with age. Nearly 60% of households with adults over 80 are single-adult homes, and it is estimated that over the course of the next 20 years this number will grow from nearly 5 million to an estimated 10.1 million in 2038. This is according to a report by Jennifer Molinsky, the project director of the Housing an Aging Society Program of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University ( “The Number of People Living Alone in Their 80s and 90s Is Set to Soar,” Housing Perspectives, Mar.
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