'Solo agers' are a growing group. Changes that would help them could help everyone
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To take one example: instead of assuming every patient has someone who can pick them up from a medical appointment after being under anesthesia — and drive them home — she'd like the onus to be on hospitals and medical offices to arrange transport and an escort. She says she has heard from people who have canceled a procedure because their ride backed out at the last minute.

"In both my solo aging advocacy hat and my healthcare advocate [hat], like, that is just infuriating," she says, "that people do not have the support they need to maintain their health in a productive way."

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