U.S. adults ages 65 and older lived alone in 2023, the most recent year with available data. That’s down from 29% in 1990.

Living alone changes everything—quietly, subtly, and then all at once. Whether you’re doing it for the first time in your 20s ...

When you live alone, there’s no one to judge you for wearing acne cream, eating leftover pizza from the fridge, or enjoying a movie marathon. “Living alone has made me more confident and independent,” ...

Living alone. Once, perhaps, it was a designation that you were an old maid, destined to someday die alone and be devoured by your cat, if you were lucky. But what if that single life could be forever ...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, millions of Americans are hunkering down at home. Working from the kitchen table, homeschooling, and attending virtual happy hours have become the new normal.

A new study details the troubling find. It turns out having roommates might be beneficial to your health. A new study published in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer journal found that adults who ...

In the parlance of Sex and the City, this was "Secret Single Behavior." But, is it actually a problem? Take the case of Amy Kennedy, a 28-year-old schoolteacher who lives alone in a two-bedroom ...

Chinatown would seem to be a neighborhood designed for loneliness. Single room occupancy hotels comprise as much as 60 percent of its housing stock. And, indeed, it has the highest number of seniors ...

Living alone is a modern phenomenon. For most of history, very few people lived alone. In the U.S., even as recently as 1960, only 7 million people lived alone; they accounted for just 13 percent of ...