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Older Americans Are Facing Unfair Health-Care Challenges: How You Can Fight Back
Aging

Older Americans Are Facing Unfair Health-Care Challenges: How You Can Fight Back

MT Connolly | November 25, 2023

Aging in America offers plenty of opportunities…and plenty of challenges. Medicare helps pay health-care bills, but the health-care system doesn’t…

Secrets to Slowing Down the Clock

Secrets to Slowing Down the Clock

Marc Wittmann, PhD | October 25, 2023

Does it feel like time is moving faster as you get older? When you were a kid, a summer day…

Caregivers: Take Care of Yourself, Too

Caregivers: Take Care of Yourself, Too

Aaron Blight, EdD | October 9, 2023

If you’re a family caregiver—an adult child caring for an aging parent, for example, or a wife caring for a…

What Is Palliative Care?

What Is Palliative Care?

Joe Rotella, MD | October 3, 2023

If you have a serious health condition, anything from cancer to congestive heart failure to dementia to Parkinson’s disease, you…

Stop Retirement From Stealing Your Health
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Stop Retirement From Stealing Your Health

Barbara Pagano, MS, EdS | October 1, 2023

For many of us, the idea of retirement seems downright heavenly, a reward for a lifetime of hard work. And…

7 Longevity Strategies from a 102-year-old Doctor

7 Longevity Strategies from a 102-year-old Doctor

Gladys McGarey, MD | September 19, 2023

Gladys McGarey, MD, has a very busy professional life. A pioneer in the holistic medicine movement, she offers life consultations…is…

Medicare Season Is Here
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Medicare Season Is Here

Maura Carley, MPH, CIC | September 3, 2023

October is the start of the open-enrollment season for Medicare. You’re probably already feeling overwhelmed by all the TV ads…

Are You Prepared to Grow Old Alone?

Are You Prepared to Grow Old Alone?

Maria Torroella Carney, MD | August 19, 2023

You may not be planning to grow old alone, but no one can predict the future. Today’s greater freedom to…

Medicare and Long-Term Health Issues

Medicare and Long-Term Health Issues

Maura Carley, MPH, CIC | August 12, 2023

Long-term health issues can lead to significant financial problems for patients who misunderstand Medicare’s complex rules. For the most part,…

The Best Times to Exercise, Nap, Take Medication and More
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The Best Times to Exercise, Nap, Take Medication and More

Sara C. Mednick, PhD | August 1, 2023

Deep within the brain lives a collection of neurons called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN for short. The SCN is…

Finding A Caregiver

Finding A Caregiver

Charles B. Inlander | July 9, 2023

Finding a competent and honest caregiver to help take care of a family member or loved one is a complicated…

The New Alzheimer’s Drug
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The New Alzheimer’s Drug

Sarah Kremen, MD | March 20, 2023

Just two years after the aducanumab (Aduhelm) controversy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved another drug for Alzheimer’s…

The Miracle of Music in Alzheimer’s Disease
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The Miracle of Music in Alzheimer’s Disease

Borna Bonakdarpour, MD | March 20, 2023

In the documentary “Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory,” Henry, an elderly man with Alzheimer’s disease, sits despondent,…

The Topic You Can’t Discuss At The Holiday Dinner Table
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The Topic You Can’t Discuss At The Holiday Dinner Table

Sarah Hiner | December 15, 2022

The only things worth talking about are the things you can’t talk about…so said my Dad many, many times in…

Preserving Dignity at the End of Life
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Preserving Dignity at the End of Life

Lauren Starr, PhD, MBE, RN | September 4, 2022

Hospice is a type of health care that moves away from curative treatments and instead focuses on relieving pain and…