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Aging
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AHCJ names 2020 National Cancer Reporting Fellows
Twelve journalists have been chosen for the 2020 class of the National Cancer Reporting Fellowship. The program is supported by…
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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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AHCJ to track access problems in real time – with your help
AHCJ’s Right to Know Committee is launching a new strategy for tracking and combating the obstacles that health care reporters…
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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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Experts have advice for the last-minute Medicare Advantage shoppers among your audience
Watching the TV ads during the evening news, you would think Medicare Advantage plans were the greatest health insurance bargain…
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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…
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Where are the aging experts in Biden’s COVID-19 task force?
Consider this: COVID-19 has hospitalizations and deaths among those over 65 are five and 90 times higher respectively than in…
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Study documents racial differences in hospice use and end-of-life care
A new analysis of racial disparities in end-of-life care finds that Black patients voluntarily seek substantially more intensive treatment, such…