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.