As public demand grows for limited supplies of coronavirus vaccines, questions remain about their appropriateness for older adults with various illnesses. Among them are cancer...
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...
A large number of older people have limited access to technology or physical impairments that make it hard to take advantage of the resource.
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...
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...
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...
Conflicts over care and housing can threaten relationships between aging parents and their adult children — just when understanding and support are needed the most.