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seniors
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Age-friendly care: What it is and how reporters should cover it
Age-friendly care keeps patient priorities at the forefront, ensuring older adults receive the care they need and want.
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Direct-to-consumer health services may pose risks for older adults
Nearly a third of adults ages 50 to 80 said they’re interested in using direct-to-consumer services in the future, according…
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Poll shows most older adults use assistive tech to age in place
A new U.S. News survey finds that more seniors are adopting apps, wearables and services to help remain at home.
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Bivalent booster efficacy and covering vaccination rates among seniors
The CDC is urging everyone, especially older adults (65+) to get their bivalent COVID-19 booster as soon as possible. Among hospitalized…
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Journalists expose significant problems with Medicare Advantage plans
Seniors signing up for Medicare Advantage (MA) during open enrollment (which ends Dec. 7) have more reasons to worry now…
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An uptick in nursing home COVID deaths, cases
COVID-related nursing home cases and deaths are on the rise again, according to recently published data on AARP’s COVID-19 dashboard. And…
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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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New tip sheet looks at mental health effects of COVID-19 on older adults
The COVID-19 pandemic has put us all under tremendous stress. Social isolation, loneliness, fear of getting sick, an uncertain economy…