{"id":25033,"date":"2025-10-16T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25033"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:34:56","slug":"an-age-old-fear-grows-more-common-im-going-to-die-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25033","title":{"rendered":"An Age-Old Fear Grows More Common: \u2018I\u2019m Going To Die Alone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer, at dinner with her best friend, Jacki Barden raised an uncomfortable topic: the possibility that she might die alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have no children, no husband, no siblings,\u201d Barden remembered saying. \u201cWho\u2019s going to hold my hand while I die?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barden, 75, never had children. She\u2019s lived on her own in western Massachusetts since her husband passed away in 2003. \u201cYou hit a point in your life when you\u2019re not climbing up anymore, you\u2019re climbing down,\u201d she told me. \u201cYou start thinking about what it\u2019s going to be like at the end.\u201d Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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