Aging/Eldercare

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to improve communication between medical teams, patients, and their families, and caregivers.

Reduced staffing means nursing home residents make more unnecessary trips to the hospital.

New Census Bureau data show the U.S. population is getting older — and at the same time, our prison populations are aging even faster. In …

Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.

People with dementia end up in hospital ERs 1.4 million times a year. Better caregiver support could prevent future crises.

“Volunteering… could serve as a simple intervention in all older adults to protect against risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” says Yi Lor.

As temperatures rise in the US, so does the incidence of heat-related deaths, including heatstroke.

With paid leave, older adults are spending less time looking after their grandchildren and more time looking after their parents.

These care delivery models are aimed at breaking down the often-impenetrable barriers between health care and social supports.

Older people and Disabled people are among the most at risk from heatwaves and flooding.

Older people have borne a higher burden of illness and death from COVID-19, with people 65 and older experiencing higher rates of hospitalization and death. That’s only part of the…

“Frustration is surging among the low-wage workers who make up the backbone of the nursing-home industry, as tens of thousands of their colleagues call out sick with Covid-19, inflaming shortages…