Planning for Solo Living


Baby Boomers have shifted how older adults approach long term care, health care, senior living, and social networks for support. The essential retirement planning expands beyond finances, legal matters, and estate planning. As baby boomers come into the retirement years, they are aging without adult children because family members either live far away or they have none at all.

Sometimes people prefer not to think about old age and pretend that the issues of living alone do not exist. The fact that a person slows down or shows signs of declining health, has limited functioning skills, less energy, becomes forgetful, or doesn't sleep well, all point to it.

Solo Living comes with its own set of concerns and challenges that heightens isolation, a weakened support system, and a disconnected home life and living situation..all because no one is around.

Ways to Live Solo

  1. Step 1 Assess your current long term needs
  2. Step 2 Learn ways to address your needs and follow though
  3. Step 3 Build support, connection and community
  4. Step 4 Find purpose and live accordingly
  5. Step 5 Be flexible and open to change as life evolves

Solo Aging 

Family caregiving showed the challenges that I will encounter in the years ahead.
 
I share that knowledge with solo adults who face growing older without a spouse or adult children to rely on. 
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Thank you, Creative Caregiving with Wendy Whiteman, to help get the word out about the fastest growing older adult market—solo agers.  They are single, childless, or living at a distance from adult children.  For solos, it's far better to prepare for the years ahead than to live in constant worry and concern about health, housing, care and support, finances, legal matters, and companionship in retirement and the years beyond.

Speaking | Presentations | Webinars


Sourced by the media for solo living advice and planning for aging alone. Carol Marak and the Elder Orphan Facebook Group have been cited in the NYTimes, Washington Post, USA Today, PBS, NPR, AARP, USNews, ASAging.org, and podcasts and radio shows.

Carol is a noted speaker on topics related to aging alone and planning for solo aging in the years ahead, which include creating social support and connection, building community, and discovering new possibilities on aging alone, the kind that assist older adults to thrive. Speaking engagements include universities and conferences: LeadingAge, ASAging (Society on Aging), Department on Aging (Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Austin.) The University of W. Florida, numerous senior housing communities, and faith organizations. The list continues to expand due the the ever growing market of solo agers.

My book, SOLO and SMART, coming soon! Read how it will assist solo agers!! Read how it will assist solo agers!.

Carol@CarolMarak.com

Group coaching support for people growing older alone Group Coaching Support.

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Master Group Coaching


Prepare for solo aging as an elder orphan and adult aging alone with advice and planning information on facing social support, building community and support for individuals living alone.

Meet with a group of like-minded peers, family caregivers, solo agers, and individuals without the help of family and adult children.

Group coaching support for people aging alone Group Coaching Support.

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