69% Of Residents Of Public Senior Housing Report Experiencing Loneliness

Approximately 69% of public senior housing community residents in St. Louis report loneliness. Of the residents surveyed, 42.7% were classified as moderately lonely, and 26.6% were classified as severely lonely.

These findings were reported in “Loneliness In Senior Housing Communities” by Harry Owen Taylor, Yi Wang, and Nancy Morrow-Howell. The researchers conducted a survey in three senior housing communities in St. Louis, Missouri that are funded under Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program. Two of the three complexes were in urban neighborhoods, and the last was located in a suburban neighborhood. A total of 148 . . .