“Loneliness among elderly” is a phrase that has become a major concern in our society .
Jewish sources advocate “It is not good for a person to be alone”. The evidence shows that
loneliness is viewed as a phenomenon that should be avoided at all costs. We must all
understand that being alone is not necessarily loneliness. One can be alone yet possess a
world of interests and activities and not feel lonely. On the other hand, at times loneliness
can be experienced by people surrounded others yet they feel oppressive loneliness. Some
people get married, but they want to be alone. Although a marriage means to have
someone in order to share feelings and secrets, some want to experience it in a different
way. They don’t know how to relate themselves to their spouses, so it causes them to be
alone in the future. Loneliness has some effects on old people’s lives, and it causes them to
change their behaviors and attitudes.
With shorter marriages and longer lives more elderly people than ever are living alone, and
a new reports show over one million of them say they often or always feel lonely. Being
alone has long been seen as a major ‘problem’ of old age. Sometimes loneliness comes
when old people don’t have prepared for a good retirement. Most of the old people hate to
live alone but for some there is no other choice left. When old people stay alone, they get
scared. To illustrate, some of them face with their problem because they prefer to stay
