{"id":23615,"date":"2024-11-12T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23615"},"modified":"2024-11-12T09:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:09:44","slug":"older-americans-living-alone-often-rely-on-neighbors-or-others-willing-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23615","title":{"rendered":"Older Americans Living Alone Often Rely on Neighbors or Others Willing To Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Hammen, 80, and his longtime next-door neighbor in south Minneapolis, Julie McMahon, have an understanding. Every morning, she checks to see whether he\u2019s raised the blinds in his dining room window. If not, she\u2019ll call Hammen or let herself into his house to see what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should McMahon find Hammen in a bad way, she plans to contact his sister-in-law, who lives in a suburb of Des Moines. That\u2019s his closest relative. Hammen never married or had children, and his younger brother died in 2022.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/older-americans-living-alone-help-neighbors-minneapolis-chicago-boulder\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/older-americans-living-alone-help-neighbors-minneapolis-chicago-boulder\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News) Donald Hammen, 80, and his longtime next-door neighbor in south Minneapolis, Julie McMahon,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,59],"tags":[92,956,94,1593],"class_list":["post-23615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-caregiver","tag-aging","tag-caregiver","tag-older-adults","tag-solo-agers-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23616,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions\/23616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}