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Diverse networks of friends, former co-workers, neighbors, and extended family are often essential sources of support for older adults living alone. Often it is the elderly caring for the elderly.
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Rising health care costs are fueling anxiety among older Americans covered by Medicare. They’re right to be concerned.
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The White House has launched an initiative on women’s health. Studying the health of older women, a largely neglected group in medical research, should be a priority.
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Many older adults who need hospital care are getting stuck in ER limbo — sometimes over a day. The long waits for seniors who are frail, with multiple medical issues, lead to a host of additional medical problems.
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It’s estimated that an older patient can spend three weeks of the year getting care — and that doesn’t count the time it takes to arrange appointments or deal with insurance companies.
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The specially designed Osceola County trailer provides people 55 and older with a low-cost and accessible way to get dentures and other dental care.
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COVID would be a wake-up call, advocates for the elderly predicted: proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults. But decisive actions experts had hoped for haven’t materialized.
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The course would be developed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in consultation with the Department of Elder Affairs.
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Members of the Special Committee on Aging are asking residents and their families to submit their bills and are calling for a Government Accountability Office study.
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A driving rehab therapist at USF says up to 75% of the seniors she evaluates have cognitive impairment. Some can still drive with regular testing and restrictions. Advance directives are a way to handle the challenge.
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Students and faculty from multiple university departments collaborated on a unique device the delivers a repeated presentation of a strobe flash to see how the brain handles that information.
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Roughly 8 million people 65 and older have dementia or need help with two or more activities of basic daily life, like getting out of bed. Facing a severe shortage of aides and high costs, caregivers often cobble together a patchwork of relatives and friends to help.