Social vulnerability and aging of elderly people in the United States.

This belief is seemingly supported by the transition towards more individualistic societies ( Santos et al., 2017 ), the erosion of social capital since the 1970s in all kinds of dimensions ( Putnam, 2000 ), and the observation of an increasing trend of living alone in old age because of smaller family sizes, increased divorce rates, and greater geographical distance between family members ( Dahlberg et al., 2018 ; Dykstra, 2009 ).

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When we consider these results in light of the results from Section 3 , showing that there is no significant trend increase in the SVI for men and only a relatively small increase for women, the observation that there is a strong trend of living alone in old age ( Klinenberg et al., 2013 ) should not raise concerns, taken for itself.

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