Senior Housing News March 11, 2025
Senior living communities can have an outsized impact on whether older adults feel lonely, according to a survey of new senior living residents from U.S. News & World Report.
More than two-thirds of the 360 older adults who participated in the survey said they felt lonely a majority of the time prior to moving into a senior living community. But fewer than half of residents, 42%, reported feeling lonely a majority of the time after moving into a senior living community.
Sixty-one percent of older adults said their feelings of loneliness or isolation improved after moving into a community, while 65% said it was easy to meet other older adults since making a move into a community. Another 85% said...