RSS FeedsSenior News - Courtesy of the New York Times Making a Play for Older Voters (and Moviegoers) AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards finally get some (limited) respect.
The Campaign to Defeat Alzheimer’s There is hopeful news in the battle against this incurable disease: scientists and the Obama administration are making progress on this intractable form of dementia.
New Treasury Rules Ease Purchase of Annuity With 401(k) New regulations are intended to make it easier for retirees to transfer money from their 401(k)s into an annuity that would guarantee payments until they die.
Low Bond Yields Make Building a Portfolio Harder At one time, Treasuries and other highly rated bonds were a safe way for older investors to generate income. But today’s low bond yields call for a new strategy.
Nursing Homes in California Confront Pharmacists’ Errors Pharmacists responsible for reviewing the medication of patients in California nursing homes routinely allowed inappropriate and potentially lethal prescriptions of antipsychotic medications.
Older Prisoners Mean Rising Health Costs, Study Finds More Americans older than 55 are being imprisoned, and many prisons are unprepared to provide them with health care, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.
Avoiding Surgery in the Elderly It's gradually becoming clearer that for the very old and frail, hospitals are places to avoid whenever possible, and surgery can become a source of danger in itself.
EARS System Gives Older New Yorkers Independence A grant from The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund allowed 59 seniors on the Lower East Side continued access to an emergency alarm response system at an affordable rate.
Osteoporosis Is So Slow, Bone Density Retests Can Wait, Study Says A new study is asking whether frequent bone density measurements make sense for the majority of older women whose bone density is not close to an osteoporosis danger zone on an initial test.
Osteoporosis Patients Advised to Delay Bone Density Retests Study by Dr Margaret Gourlay published in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that bone loss and osteoporosis develop so slowly in most women whose bones test normal at age 65 that many can safely wait as long as 15 years before having a second bone density test; study is part of a broad rethinking of how to diagnose and treat the potentially debilitating bone disease.
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