Rising divorce rates for people over 50 are one reason why an increasing number of older Americans are living alone
Edith Heyck didn’t expect she’d be 72 years old and living alone. “I always thought I’d be married,” she says. “I was definitely raised to be a wife, and I never imagined I’d be on my own.” Heyck, an artist and part-time park manager in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is one of nearly 38 million adults living alone in the United States, where the share of single-person households has reached a record high, according to Census data.
” ‘Gray divorce’ isn’t the only reason older Americans are living alone Some people who go through “gray divorce” remarry, and some move in with a new romantic partner or other family members. In the first couple of years after a “gray divorce,” Brown says, about 50% of people end up living alone. But many older people who are living alone haven’t gone through “gray divorce.” Some are widowed, and a growing share have never been married at all.
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