U.S. News & World Report (9/22) blog that aging Baby Boomers include many single, childless individuals. “According to census data, the rate of childlessness among boomers now in their 50s and 60s is close to 20%, twice what it was for women born in the late 1920s.” AARP Public Policy Institute Senior Strategic Policy Advisor Lynn Friss Feinberg said, in Sadick’s words, “the divorce rate of those 50 and older has doubled since the 1990s.” These solo agers will face “health and functional issues,” which “risk greatly limiting their mobility, and potentially grapple with isolation and loneliness.” R.
Sean Morrison, chair of the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, said solo agers “will be.