Senior living: Older men’s connections often wither when they’re on their own

Senior living: Older men’s connections often wither when they’re on their own

At age 66, South Carolina physician Paul Rousseau decided to retire after tending for decades to the suffering of people who were seriously ill or dying. It was a difficult and emotionally fraught transition. “I didn’t know what I was going to do, where I was going to go,” he told me, describing a period…