Tag: Medicare

Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until now, there ...

As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of ...

Lack of dental coverage contributes to the delaying or forgoing of dental care by 1 in 4 adults, according to a ...

Spurred by decades of complaints about the high cost of hearing aids, Congress passed a law in 2017 to allow ...

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

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 ...

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

Older adults who have survived covid-19 are more likely than younger patients to have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness, ...

Many states have experimented with how to cover America’s roughly 33.2 million uninsured people, about 400,000 of whom are 65 or older.