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Sharing Your Home:
It's the Golden Girls for Real

Lori Bitter
Publisher of GRAND
and owner of The
Business of Aging

BY LORI BITTER

I

t seems that every depiction of life after 50 is of couples - smiling families, on cruise ships, walking hand in
hand on a beach. That's just the reality of about a third of
people. Whether widowed, divorced, or never married, many
baby boomers will find themselves on their own as they
age. There are several reasons for this. Women, in particular,
are likely to be single as a result of outliving their spouses,
with the average being at least five years longer than men.
And while the overall divorce rate in the country went down
during the recession, the rate of divorce among couples over
50 has actually doubled.
While singlehood creates many issues as people age, two
of the biggest are social isolation and the need for care. The
National Center for Family & Marriage reports that adult
children are often far away from their aging parents. How

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Many people believe they
are too set in their ways
to consider living with an
unrelated adult - isn't that
something young
people do?

9 GRAND

MARCH APRIL 2017

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