Healthcare and Caregiving

Several states have enacted laws to guarantee minimum levels of care and amenities in nursing homes, beyond federal standards.

“Traditional” Medicare does not cover many benefits used overwhelmingly by its beneficiaries, including most vision, dental and hearing care, and...

As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the...

Political leanings that have skewed vaccination rates across the country have had much less of an impact on older adults.

Multiple studies have found that older adults with a broad array of “weak” as well as “close” ties enjoy better...

Researchers and people who run diabetes prevention efforts said participation is low because of the way Medicare has set up...

A provision in California's newly approved state budget will be a game changer for aging Californians who don't earn enough...

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in June of a drug purporting to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was...

As physicians and health policy experts debate the merits of Aduhelm, the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease approved in...

For at least 20 years, national experts have warned about the dire consequences of a shortage of nursing assistants and...