Confronting Ageism in Health Care: A Conversation for Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians
The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid...
Judith Graham writes the “Navigating Aging” column for Kaiser Health News. She has covered health care for more than 30 years. She’s been an investigative reporter, national correspondent and senior health reporter at the Chicago Tribune and a regular contributor to The New York Times’ New Old Age blog. Judith was the first topic leader on aging for the Association of Health Care Journalists. Her work has appeared in publications including Stat News, The Washington Post, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She is a graduate of Harvard College and has a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.
The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid...
Ageism in health care settings is a long-standing problem that’s getting new attention during the pandemic.
Many people in their 50s, 60s and 70s facing big changes as their primary physicians retire. A decade from now,...
The approval of a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, Aduhelm, is shining a spotlight on mild cognitive impairment —...
"A large part of my job is presence and witness — being with people one-on-one in their homes, at the...
As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the...
Multiple studies have found that older adults with a broad array of “weak” as well as “close” ties enjoy better...
As physicians and health policy experts debate the merits of Aduhelm, the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease approved in...
Millions of older adults are newly motivated to get online and participate in digital offerings after being shut inside, hoping...
If older adults don’t address issues that have arisen during the pandemic — muscle weakness, poor nutrition, disrupted sleep, anxiety,...