The SOLOIST Archives | 2022

The Good News for Solo Women

In this article, we discuss these surprising findings and their encouraging implications for Solo women. Equally important are the issues addressed in next month’s article. While long-time singles may have about the same financial resources for retirement as married women, there’s a second half to this story.

More Good Reads for Solos

Soon after we launched The Soloist newsletter, we posted a curated list of resources about aging solo. Here’s an update with additional books, articles, websites, tools, etc., culled from the growing body of Solos-content we’re tracking.

Solos in Good Company

It began back in 2013. Manhattanite Wendl Kornfeld, then age 65, had been thinking a lot about what would happen as she and her husband aged. They didn’t have children. All the more reason for them to make a plan for whatever lay ahead.

Solos Emerge from the Shadows

About one-quarter of adults over age 65 are Solo, and the percentage is even larger among the oldest age groups. Yet many Solos feel like freaks. They live in a world where it’s assumed that you, like other older adults, have children and grandchildren who will play an active role as you age.

The Solos Are Coming, the Solos Are Coming

Today, aging Boomers are reinventing what it means to be “elderly.” Among other factors that set them apart from previous generations, they are much more likely to be Solos, i.e., age 65 and older and not have a spouse, partner, and/or adult children who can support them as they age. But Baby Boomers are only the leading edge.

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