Anxiety crept into Donna Meloney’s thoughts.
Sometimes, it ate into her sleep when Meloney, then in her mid-60s, lay awake at night, worrying about a future alone. More often, it arrived in the morning when the day ahead looked like an empty horizon.
As Canada shifts toward “super-aged” status, it needs a national strategy on loneliness, advocates say.
Before moving into the Community Wellness Hub, Donna Meloney, right, faced creeping anxiety of the isolation that could come from aging alone.
Burlington Coun. Paul Sharman’s plan helped older adults in a community housing apartment building remain independent, in their own homes, by surrounding them with health care and social supports.
A Toronto woman all but disappeared from the home she lived in for decades and the friends she had made there. Why did she spend her final years