Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.
There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.
The arctic loneliness of age.
Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.
Life is very tough for women. When you are a certain age, you are left alone at home with no one to share your life with.
I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.
It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking
