elderly

If you’re a Baby Boomer, here are a couple of statistics that should concern you. By 2030, one in five Americans will be 65 and over. Yet a Harvard study…

Americans are spending billions of dollars each year on long-term care for older adults, and many are struggling to figure out how to pay for care for a…

Ten years ago, a driver ran a stop sign as Jim McIlroy rode into the intersection on his motorcycle. Serious injuries left McIlroy paralyzed from the…

SAN FRANCISCO — Janet Prochazka was active and outspoken, living by herself and working as a special education tutor. Then, in March, a bad fall landed…

The elderly population in America is set to double over the next fifty years. There will be 98 million elderly people - those 65 or older- by 2060,…

Twenty percent of people who fall and break a hip after age 50 die within a year, and women are at greatest risk. But you can reduce the odds of falling. Here's how.

When it comes to the benefits of electronic health records, older Americans may be left behind, says a new University of Michigan study.Less than a third…

"End of life choices can be even more complicated when an older person is hospitalized and can't always speak up for him or herself. Dr. Alexia Torke is…

“Another possible change in health policy now, the Medicare system is considering starting to pay doctors for their time to they spend counseling patients…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/051814_7.mp3A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that half the elderly…