'Solo agers' are a growing group. Changes that would help them could help everyone
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GERHARDT: Let's look at designing the system or redesigning the system so that anyone and everyone can have strong support. Quite honestly, that benefits everyone.

MILNE-TYTE: She says acknowledging solo agers' reality makes them feel less invisible. Jason Resendez is CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving. He says there is growing recognition in some parts of government that many people are aging by themselves. That said, cuts are coming to home-based services for older adults and to Medicaid.

JASON RESENDEZ: Which makes it a lot harder to age in place when you don't have a family caregiver to absorb the elimination of those social service supports.

MILNE-TYTE: Carl Smigielski was a family caregiver to his husband, Moshe, who died in 2019. He's 61, lives alone in Richmond, Rhode Island, and expects it to stay that way.

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