DETROIT: People should consider inviting elderly strangers to live with them for a while to reduce isolation and the number of pensioners dying a lonely death, says a politician.
He has also urged people to keep in closer touch with older relatives, friends and neighbors. He has highlighted the case of a man found last week three years after he died, and the “lonely funerals,” half of which involve over-65s.
“Are we really saying these people had no living relatives or friends? Or is it something sadder, namely that the busy, atomized lives we increasingly lead mean that too often we have become so distant from blood relatives that we don’t have any idea even when they are dying?” said…