A pandemic upshot: Seniors are having second thoughts about where to live
It can be tricky enough to decide where to live as one ages and potentially needs more assistance. The pandemic has made them even more...
How to help older people take advantage of tech to stay connected
A large number of older people have limited access to technology or physical impairments that make it hard to take advantage of the resource.
Some states allowing in-person nursing home visits — to relief of families
More than half of U.S. states have given the go-ahead to nursing home visits under careful circumstances. Anguished families say loved ones are suffering mentally...
Fearing COVID-19, and ventilators, older people alter their living wills
For older adults contemplating what might happen to them in this pandemic, ventilators are a fraught symbol, representing a terrifying lack of personal control as...
Seniors with COVID-19 can show very different symptoms, doctors say
COVID-19 is typically signaled by fever, an insistent cough and shortness of breath. But older adults — the age group most at risk of severe...
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Parenting your aging parents when they don’t want help
Conflicts over care and housing can threaten relationships between aging parents and their adult children — just when understanding and support are needed the most.
The health-care promises we cannot keep
“We want to give loved ones who are sick or dying everything we think they want — but we can’t,” said Barbara Karnes, an end-of-life...
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Why the vast majority of older adults feel good about their health
Expectations change: "People hit their 80s and 90s, look around and feel pretty good about just being alive."