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We’re all lonely now. Forced to stay at home by a global pandemic and government decree, we all feel the solitude of being apart from family, friends and colleagues.
This is what it was like for the growing elderly population of wealthy countries like the UK and U.S. even before the outbreak of the coronavirus. And one developer of senior living wants to use a combination of academic rigour and design interventions to do something about it.
“The pandemic has demonstrated to people that there is an issue around how we look after our loved ones and older people,” Guild Living founder Eugene Marchese said. “We have to bring them back into our communities.”
Marchese was thinking about the problem long before the current pandemic. More than 2 million people in England over the age of 75 live alone and more than 1 million older people say they go for a month without speaking to a friend, neighbour or family member, according to the NHS.Guild…
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