Retirement should be the most enjoyable time of your life. You've worked and saved to provide for yourself in your later years so that you can do things you enjoy. Given how hard you've prepared, it's ...

In his 2018 song “Hurt The Ones We Love The Most,” singer-songwriter-producer Evan Blum writes, “So, tell me why we hurt the ones we love the most. Because we think they'll never go. Of everyone we've ...

MAYVILLE – Advocates, elected officials and leaders from around the globe took time recently to acknowledge elder abuse and to discuss ways to prevent it. Among those who participated were Chautauqua ...

Dr. Glatter is Editor at Large for Medscape Emergency Medicine and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Papadakos is the Professor of ...

When Karina Singer, a 48-year-old Las Vegas woman, visited her dad in his assisted living facility, something seemed off. The air conditioner was on the lowest setting and a fan was on full blast, and ...

The U.S. is growing older. Experts predict that seniors (people ages 65 and over) will make up 23% of the country by 2050, up from 16.5% now. As the aging population grows, more families of elderly ...

As of July 2022, there were more than 15,300 certified nursing homes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And while pre-pandemic studies estimate ...

Marie Jean Oppermann deserved better and it could have gone much worse for Sandra E. Yankey. The latter got off with probation and a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting the ...

Elder abuse is a growing problem exacerbated by financial and housing stress as well as social isolation, according to a Queensland parliamentary inquiry. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ...

The number of senior citizens is growing rapidly; individuals aged 65 and older increased from 39.6 million in 2009 to 54.1 million in 2019 (a 36% increase) and is projected to reach 94.7 million by ...