That's a valid point. I think that's why I also lament. I think very few people have families these days. Most are estranged? And most people don't want to burden people. I certainly don't want to be a burden to my son, or friends... I have seen a lot of not too good aged communities and nursing home that are understaffed. I don't think that's a stereotype. I know quite a few nurses working in nursing homes, and the homes can't keep them because they exhaust them and their licenses are always at risk.

There are some good places, as clearly indicated by you. And when they're good, the community experience is the very thing that most of these days are missing.

Living alone in houses they can't keep up that too is a problem. People having too much stuff, sometimes in storage units... The disconnect of stuff and human contact, that's my lament.

We need more community. I wonder though, if the stigma, which I agree there is, is it perpetuated by people who are rationalizing wanting to be alone...? We've been alone too long we think people in communities are hippies! Ha. :) May I be a hippie in a commune of love when I grow up.

I love the baboon story!