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Poll: Lack of online medical accounts for seniors could affect COVID vaccination scheduling
With most major health systems using patient portals for scheduling COVID-19 vaccinations, many older adults may need help setting up…
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New York AG finds COVID-19 nursing home deaths vastly underreported
Deaths among nursing home residents in New York state have been underreported by as much as 50%, according to a…
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Study shows food insecurity still common among many older adults
Food insecurity — when people lack access to food or go hungry due to poverty or other challenges — remains…
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Long-term effects of COVID-19 on the brain could mean a wave of dementia cases
We don’t yet know the severity of COVID-19’s long-term effects on the brain, but a group of international researchers is…
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Does care suffer as private equity firms buy struggling nursing homes?
Private equity firms are in the business of making money. On the surface, there is nothing wrong with that. However,…
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As nursing home death and infection rates rise, how is isolation affecting seniors?
As the U.S. enters what experts predict may be the most severe months yet of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number…
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Importance of home-based care programs for older adults grows during pandemic
We all know the toll that COVID-19 has taken on older adults in institutional settings. It’s prompted many aging advocates…
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Reporter takes readers inside a nursing home’s effort to fight COVID-19
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing homes throughout California were preparing for a wave of cases. Older adults,…
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Poll explores hesitancy among older adults to get a COVID-19 vaccine
A new poll of adults over age 50 – one of the highest-priority groups to receive a COVID-19 vaccine –…
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AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine shows promise for older adults
There’s good news for older adults from a new phase2/phase 3 trial of the COVID-19 vaccine under development by Oxford…