Alone but not necessarily lonesome

All these charities making money and creating employment around the elderly keep giving us statistics about how many oldies live a solitary life.
    But there’s never anything about how many are happy to embrace their inner hermit and can find plenty of things to occupy their time, thank you very much. Maybe it’s something to do with the amount of dosh that can be hoovered up in the name of relieving loneliness, real and assumed.