New research finds an almost threefold increase in the percentage of divorced older adults compared with three decades ago. And an increasing number of older adults never have married.
The findings suggest opportunities for changes in the design and programming of senior living communities to accommodate evolving lifestyles.
“Traditionally, when we’ve studied older adults, we tend to confine our focus to thinking about marriage and widowhood,” Bowling Green State University sociology professor Susan L. Brown, PhD, said in a statement. She authored the study with graduate student Jaden Loo. “These figures show that we really need to widen the lens and think more broadly about the shifting composition of older adults, who are increasingly divorced or never married,” Brown added…