The Path to Dynamic Solo Aging Starts Here
The Navigating Solo™ Network helps older adults plan, prepare, connect, and build reliable support when adult children or close family cannot be assumed to step in. Explore practical guidance, planning tools, research, and community designed to support agency, independence, and informed choice.
Navigating Solo™ Network
in the National Conversation
Featured on NPR, June 2026
What Needs Your Attention Right Now?
Identify the people, professionals, services, communication, and backup you may need.
Take stock of where
you are today and identify gaps
or priorities.
Find peers, programs,
regional opportunities,
and community.
Work through support,
healthcare, housing, legal, financial, and
everyday-life decisions.
Use structured tools
and resources to
turn planning into practical next steps.
What 507 Solo Agers Told Us
The 2026 Navigating Solo™ White Paper brings together the voices of 507 solo agers to examine planning, support, access, and the systems people may need to rely on as they age.
Reliable support cannot simply be assumed.
Having people in your life is not the same as having support you can count on.
Solo aging is not a crisis to be solved. It is a reality to be supported.
Learn what solo aging can involve and explore the questions that may deserve your attention.
Building a Stronger
Architecture of Support
Navigating solo does not mean doing everything alone. Having people in your life is not the same as having reliable support you can count on.
Solo agers may draw on friends, neighbors, professionals, services, community resources, technology, and other forms of support. What matters is not simply who is in your life, but whether the support you may need is understood, available, and backed up.
Navigating Solo™ helps people think intentionally about the support that can help preserve choice, independence, and agency over time.
Practical Planning
Understand what may need attention and take manageable steps across healthcare, housing, support, legal, financial, and everyday-life planning.
Reliable Support
Think beyond a list of names to the people, professionals, services, communication, and backup that can make support work.
Connection Without Assumptions
Connect with other solo agers while recognizing that there is no single solo aging experience. Resources, relationships, needs, priorities, and preferences vary widely.
I Need a Place
to Start
Where Do I Start? • Questions Solo Agers Ask • Navigating Solo™ Compass
I Want to Learn
Resource Library • Blog • Podcast • 2026 White Paper
I Want to Connect
Table Talks • Regional Groups • Community • Events
I’m Ready to
Take Action
Planning Workbook • Planning Series • Vitality Audit & Board of Directors Toolkit • Discussion Groups