Preparing for Aging as a Single Woman a Conversation with Jerdone Davis - a podcast by MARKINC Ministries

Aging is a season of loss on many levels. Married women fear losing their
spouse or outliving their children. In fact, today there are 13.6 million
widows in America, and about 700,000 women become a widow in the U.S. each
year. Single women who have never married can fear being alone in the last
years of life. In this conversation with Sharon Betters, seventy-two-year
old Jerdone Davis frankly shares some of the emotional challenges of
anticipating aging alone, including addressing how we can prepare for this
season while we are younger and how can we handle the fears of being alone,
especially in the last season of our lives. No matter your marital status,
Jerdone’s recommendations for preparing for the last season of life will
encourage you to be intentional in taking steps to make things easier for
loved ones after your death.

In the book co-authored by Susan Hunt and Sharon Betters, Aging with Grace,
Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture, each chapter ends with a story-teller
who is at least seventy years old. Each woman gives the readers a glimpse
into what aging with grace looks like for her. One of those storytellers is
Jerdone Davis. In a five-minute video for the companion series Aging with
Grace, Ask an Older Woman, Jerdone answered the question: 

How do you deal with loneliness and fear as an aging single woman?

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