I truly wish I could. I had a social system related to a sport with 250 participants each of whom I got to know as teammates rotated. After suffering a disabling injury I lost contact with ALL of them and now literally have no friends or associates since our lone connection was the sport multiple days a week. So I am interminably depressed and anxious on multiple medications. Tried religion and volunteering. I was advised the volunteer positions already had a waiting list. The churches were not particularly interested in a depressed elderly man. No local fraternal clubs nearby. No senior centers or social apparatus for the elderly. During the course of an ordinary day I have no one to whom I can talk. My brothers all live more than a thousand miles away and have their own families. According to what I have read I am not “alone” in my solitude and there are many others in a similar position, but am, in fact, alone. I go out walking, sometimes for miles, and even then the only communication is at most a short greeting. This is very simply a broken society, twenty per cent of whom are at any time on antidepressants or addictive anxiety meds, about half living in poverty or from paycheck to paycheck, with family members often losing touch or distant, and the “golden years” I have found, for so many, are nothing but misery, frailty, depression and loneliness. Grim. I have often pondered how this could change and how those who are lonely could participate in “meet ups” or other social gatherings but thus far I have discovered no solution. The suggestions of others who have never been in this situation are so simple but for most seniors are not realistic. Has anyone out there observed in their locality any organizations that possibly can resolve this problem? How? Where?