Really struggling at 15 months out with losing my husband

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Old people are often lonely. She seemed to be coping well. Any time we can give them conversation

... is generally a good thing. Sometimes people are so starved for human conversation that they will pay to have a visitor come spend a few hours a week with them.

Many older people have outlived their family and their long-time friends.

One of the more interesting social experiments is where 20-somethings live with 60/70/80 somethings in a house. It reduces rent for the youngsters and gives the oldsters help with the occasional heavy lifting and upkeep while letting wisdom and experience flow both ways.