by | Aug 14, 2024 | Health
Few people want to go into a nursing home, but doing so can be the right choice if you or a loved one is physically or cognitively disabled or recovering from surgery. Unfortunately, homes vary greatly in quality, and many don’t have enough nurses and aides to give...
by | Aug 13, 2024 | Health
For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The antibiotics he was taking...
by | Aug 10, 2024 | Health
What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. This story also ran on CNN. It can be republished for free. About ‘Navigating Aging’ Navigating Aging focuses on medical issues...
by | Aug 1, 2024 | Health
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, shared a debate stage June 27 for the first time since 2020, in a confrontation that — because of strict debate rules — managed to avoid the...
by | Jul 27, 2024 | Health
Researchers say that by the end of the decade, 70 percent of people in the United States living with HIV will be older than 50. Thanks to advances in medicine, the diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. Health Brief Health Brief is a coproduction of The Washington...
by | Jul 20, 2024 | Health
Medical research has shortchanged women for decades. This is particularly true of older women, leaving physicians without critically important information about how to best manage their health. This story also ran on The Washington Post. It can be republished for...
