For Older Adults, Smelling the Roses May Be More Difficult
The reports from covid-19 patients are disconcerting. Only a few hours before, they were enjoying a cup of pungent coffee
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It Takes a Team: A Doctor With Terminal Cancer Relies on a Close-Knit Group in Her Final Days
The decisions have been gut-wrenching. Should she try another round of chemotherapy, even though she barely tolerated the last one?
Read MoreWhen the Eye on Older Patients Is a Camera
In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out the front door of her son’s home
Read MoreResearcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should
Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original
Read MoreDemocrats Plan to Expand Medicare Hearing Benefits. What Can Consumers Expect?
President Joe Biden’s mammoth domestic spending bill would add hearing benefits to the traditional Medicare program — one of three
Read More‘Covid Hit Us Over the Head With a Two-by-Four’: Addressing Ageism With Urgency
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization announced a global campaign to combat ageism — discrimination against older adults that
Read MoreFew Acute Care Hospitals Escaped Readmissions Penalties
Preventable rehospitalization of the nation’s older adults has proved a persistent health and financial challenge for the U.S., costing Medicare
Read MoreNursing Home Residents Overlooked in Scramble for Covid Antibody Treatments
Of the dozens of patients Dr. Jim Yates has treated for covid-19 at his long-term care center in rural Alabama,
Read MoreIf Congress Adds Dental Coverage to Medicare, Should All Seniors Get It?
William Stork needs a tooth out. That’s what the 71-year-old retired truck driver’s dentist told him during a recent checkup.
Read MoreDemocrats’ Plans to Expand Medicare Benefits Put Pinch on Advantage Plans’ Funding
“Did you think we wouldn’t notice?” an older woman says, speaking into the camera. “You thought you could sneak this
Read MoreMedicare Punishes 2,499 Hospitals for High Readmissions
The federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments
Read MoreDemocrats’ Plans to Expand Medicare Benefits May Pinch Advantage Plans’ Funding
“Did you think we wouldn’t notice?” an older woman says, speaking into the camera. “You thought you could sneak this
Read More3 States Limit Nursing Home Profits in Bid to Improve Care
Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until now, there
Read MoreConfronting Ageism in Health Care: A Conversation for Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians
Can’t see the video player? View the video here. What does ageism in health care look like? It can be
Read More‘They Treat Me Like I’m Old and Stupid’: Seniors Decry Health Providers’ Age Bias
Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco, often feels devalued when
Read MoreWhat Will It Take to Boost Vaccinations? The Scene From Kentucky’s Back Roads
SMILAX, Ky. — In the end it was the delta variant that drove Rose Mitchell, 89, down the winding mountain
Read MoreThe Public Backs Medicare Rx Price Negotiation Even After Hearing Both Sides’ Views
As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of
Read MoreA Wrenching Farewell: Bidding Adieu to My Primary Care Doctor After Nearly 30 Years
I hadn’t expected the tears. My primary care doctor and I were saying goodbye after nearly 30 years together. “You
Read MoreCentros de órganos a pacientes de trasplantes: vacúnense contra covid o bajarán en la lista de espera
Un candidato a trasplante de riñón de Colorado que fue puesto en estado inactivo por no vacunarse contra covid-19 se
Read MoreOrgan Centers to Transplant Patients: Get a Covid Shot or Move Down on Waitlist
A Colorado kidney transplant candidate who was bumped to inactive status for failing to get a covid-19 vaccine has become
Read MoreCalifornia Vaccine Mandate Extends to Aides for People With Disabilities
Workers in adult and senior care facilities and in-home aides have been added to the list of California health workers
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Drug Targets People With Mild Cognitive Impairment. What Does That Mean?
The approval of a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, Aduhelm, is shining a spotlight on mild cognitive impairment —
Read MoreAn Ad’s Charge That Price Haggling Would ‘Swipe $500 Billion From Medicare’ Is Incorrect
“These guys [insurance companies and Washington bureaucrats] are working together to swipe $500 billion from Medicare to pay for Pelosi
Read MoreThe Checkup Is in the Mail? Soliciting Letter Carriers to Help Deliver Health Care
Two of America’s toughest problems can be tempered with one solution. The baby boom generation is graying, creating an ever-larger
Read MoreMinister for Seniors at Famed Church Confronts Ageism and the Shame It Brings
Later life is a time of reassessment and reflection. What sense do we make of the lives we have lived?
Read More‘My Time to Live’: Through Novel Program, Kidney Patients Get Palliative Care, Dialysis ’Til the End
After a decade of living with chronic kidney disease, Vonita McGee knows her body is wearing out. At 63, McGee
Read MoreReaders and Tweeters Ponder Vaccines and Points of Fairness
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Read MoreBiden’s No-Jab-No-Job Order Creates Quandary for Nursing Homes
President Joe Biden’s edict that nursing homes must ensure their workers are vaccinated against covid-19 presents a challenge for an
Read MoreAfter Pandemic Ravaged Nursing Homes, New State Laws Protect Residents
When the coronavirus hit Martha Leland’s Connecticut nursing home last year, she and dozens of other residents contracted the disease
Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Booster Time
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