- Millions of Aging Americans Are Facing Dementia by Themselves
- Older Men’s Connections Often Wither When They’re on Their Own
- Journalists Give Insights Into Opioid Settlements and Picking a Nursing Home
- La vejez en soledad, así vive un número histórico de estadounidenses
- Historic Numbers of Americans Live by Themselves as They Age
- In Montana, 911 Calls Reveal Impact of Heat Waves on Rural Seniors
- Watch: Tips on Finding a Good Nursing Home
- Feds Killed Plan To Curb Medicare Advantage Overbilling After Industry Opposition
- La actividad física es clave para aliviar el Parkinson, pero las minorías no acceden a estos programas
- Exercise Is Key for Parkinson’s Relief. But Bias, Underdiagnosis Hold Black Patients Back.
- ‘Scared to Death’: Nurses and Residents Confront Rampant Violence in Dementia Care Facilities
- Florida’s RSV Season Has Started, and It’s Coming Soon to the Rest of US. Here’s a Primer.
- Journalists Drill Down on Ongoing Covid Risks, Escalating Health Care Costs
- Harris, alguna vez la voz de Biden sobre el aborto, tendría un enfoque abierto en temas de salud
- Harris, Once Biden’s Voice on Abortion, Would Take an Outspoken Approach to Health
- Trump Is Wrong in Claiming Full Credit for Lowering Insulin Prices
- Despite Past Storms’ Lessons, Long-Term Care Residents Again Left Powerless
- How to Find a Good, Well-Staffed Nursing Home
- Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries
- 1st Biden-Trump Debate of 2024: What They Got Wrong, and Right
- Federal Budget Constraints May Hurt Older Americans With HIV
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Live From Aspen: Health and the 2024 Elections
- Older Women Are Different Than Older Men. Their Health Is Woefully Understudied.
- Americans With HIV Are Living Longer. Federal Spending Isn’t Keeping Up.
- Biden Plan To Save Medicare Patients Money on Drugs Risks Empty Shelves, Pharmacists Say
- Residencias de adultos mayores quedan a oscuras en la lucha contra los incendios forestales
- Nursing Homes Are Left in the Dark as More Utilities Cut Power to Prevent Wildfires
- Readers Issue Rx for Clogged ERs and Outrageous Out-of-Pocket Costs
- New Help for Dealing With Aggression in People With Dementia
- Nursing Homes Wield Pandemic Immunity Laws To Duck Wrongful Death Suits
- Journalists Demystify Bird Flu, Brain Worms, and New Staffing Mandates for Nursing Homes
- Biden’s Nursing Home Staffing Rule Surfaces Horror Stories
- Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm
- Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates. Most Nursing Homes Don’t Meet Them.
- Biden Is Right About $35 Insulin Cap but Exaggerates Prior Costs for Medicare Enrollees
- How Primary Care Is Being Disrupted: A Video Primer
- The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
- Some Medicaid Providers Borrow or Go Into Debt Amid ‘Unwinding’ Payment Disruptions
- Adultos mayores, agotados por tener que organizar tanta atención médica
- Social Security Chief Testifies in Senate About Plans to Stop ‘Clawback Cruelty’
- Sitios de telesalud prometen una cura para la “menopausia masculina” a pesar de prohibiciones
- Exclusive: Social Security Chief Vows to Fix ‘Cruel-Hearted’ Overpayment Clawbacks
- An Arm and a Leg: The Medicare Episode
- Biden Said State of the Union Is Strong and Made Clear His Campaign Is Off and Running
- Whistleblower Accuses Aledade, Largest US Independent Primary Care Network, of Medicare Fraud
- Say That Again: Using Hearing Aids Can Be Frustrating for Older Adults, but Necessary
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Alabama Court Rules Embryos Are Children. What Now?
- Death and Redemption in an American Prison
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Biden Wins Early Court Test for Medicare Drug Negotiations
- Nuevas normas de elegibilidad son un alivio financiero para casi 2 millones de personas en Medi-Cal
- New Eligibility Rules Are a Financial Salve for Nearly 2 Million on Medi-Cal
- Do We Simply Not Care About Old People?
- Una decisión difícil: cuando los adultos mayores tienen que dejar de conducir
- Preparing to Hang Up the Car Keys as We Age
- Medicare Advantage Is Popular, but Some Beneficiaries Feel Buyer’s Remorse
- What’s Indoor Air Quality Like in Long-Term Care Facilities During Wildfires? Worse Than You’d Think.
- Watch: Older Americans Say They Feel Stuck in Medicare Advantage Plans
- America’s Health System Isn’t Ready for the Surge of Seniors With Disabilities
- In a Fractious Rerun, GOP Rivals Haley and DeSantis Debate Health Care. Trump Sits It Out.
- Adultos mayores se sienten “atrapados” en planes de Medicare Advantage
- Older Americans Say They Feel Trapped in Medicare Advantage Plans
- ‘I Am Just Waiting to Die’: Social Security Clawbacks Drive Some Into Homelessness
- Social Security Chief Apologizes to Congress for Misleading Testimony on Overpayments
- ‘Financial Ruin Is Baked Into the System’: Readers on the Costs of Long-Term Care
- ‘Until It Is Fixed’: Congress Ramps Up Action on Social Security Clawbacks
- People With Disabilities Hope Autonomous Vehicles Deliver Independence
- Social Security Clawbacks Hit a Million More People Than Agency Chief Told Congress
- Watch: The Long-Term Care Crisis: Why Few Can Afford to Grow Old in America
- What to Know About Home Care Services
- In Congress, Calls Mount for Social Security to Address Clawbacks
- What to Know About Assisted Living
- New Social Security Report Shows Growing Overpayment Problem Tops $23B
- Prevención del VIH: proponen que Medicare cubra PrEP para adultos mayores
- Adult Children Discuss the Trials of Caring for Their Aging Parents
- Nursing Homes Say They Can’t Afford Higher Staffing. But Their Finances Are Often Opaque.
- Biden Pick to Lead Social Security Pledges Action on ‘Heartbreaking’ Clawbacks
- A New Era of Vaccines Leaves Old Questions About Prices Unanswered
- Una charla necesaria: qué le ocurre al cuerpo y la mente a medida que se envejece
- Let’s Have an Honest Conversation About What to Expect as You Age
- Senators Demand Answers From Social Security on Clawbacks Tied to Covid Relief
- Under Fire, Social Security Chief Vows ‘Top-to-Bottom’ Review of Payment Clawbacks
- Covid Relief Payments Triggered Feds to Demand Money Back From Social Security Recipients
- House Panel to Hold Hearing on Erroneous Social Security Payments
- Social Security Chief Orders Broad Review of Benefit Overpayments
- Social Security Overpayments Draw Scrutiny and Outrage From Members of Congress
- As Covid Infections Rise, Nursing Homes Are Still Waiting for Vaccines
- Cuando pienses en tu salud, no te olvides de tus ojos
- When You Think About Your Health, Don’t Forget Your Eyes
- Social Security Overpays Billions to People, Many on Disability. Then It Asks for the Money Back.
- Rural Nursing Home Supporters Fear Proposed Staffing Standards Will Trigger More Closures
- Por qué los CDC recomiendan el nuevo refuerzo contra covid para todos
- Why the CDC Has Recommended New Covid Boosters for All
- Exclusive: CMS Study Sabotages Efforts to Bolster Nursing Home Staffing, Advocates Say
- A New Medicare Proposal Would Cover Training for Family Caregivers
- New Alzheimer’s Drug Raises Hopes — Along With Questions
- The Real Costs of the New Alzheimer’s Drug, Most of Which Will Fall to Taxpayers
- New Weight Loss Drugs Carry High Price Tags and Lots of Questions for Seniors
- En las personas mayores, un poco de sobrepeso no es tan malo
- In Older Adults, a Little Excess Weight Isn’t Such a Bad Thing
- Why the Next Big Hope for Alzheimer’s Might Not Help Most Black Patients
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- The Medicare Advantage Influence Machine
- Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems
- States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.
- The Concierge Catch: Better Access for a Few Patients Disrupts Care for Many
- Amgen Plows Ahead With Costly, Highly Toxic Cancer Dosing Despite FDA Challenge
- Hospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care
- A State-Sanctioned Hospital Monopoly Raises Concerns
- After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
- Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu
- Long-Term Care Facilities Must Provide Addiction Care, Advocates Say
- Can You Rely on Your Mammogram To Identify Heart Disease Risk?
- Helene and CVS Land Double Whammy for 25,000 Patients Who Survive on IV Nutrition
- As Hospitals Get Bigger, Medical Debt Is Harder for Patients To Shake
- Public Health Departments Face a Post-Covid Funding Crash
- California Hospitals Scramble on Earthquake Retrofits as State Limits Extensions
- Cash Shortages and Complex Rules Impede Native American Health-Care Access
- ‘Dreamers’ Can Enroll in ACA Plans This Year — But a Court Challenge Could Get in the Way
- PBM Math: Big Chains Are Paid $23.55 To Fill a Blood Pressure Rx. Small Drugstores? $1.51.
- Voters Fret High Medical Bills Are Being Ignored by Presidential Rivals
- Harris apoya la reducción de la deuda médica. Los “conceptos” de Trump preocupan a defensores.
- Harris Backs Slashing Medical Debt. Trump’s ‘Concepts’ Worry Advocates.
- Employers Haven’t a Clue How Their Drug Benefits Are Managed
- Lo nuevo y lo que debes tener en cuenta en el próximo período de inscripción abierta de ACA
- What’s New and What To Watch For in the Upcoming ACA Open Enrollment Period
- Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress
- Presidential Election Puts Affordable Care Act Back in the Bull’s-Eye
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': LIVE From KFF: Health Care and the 2024 Election
- Montana Looks To Fast-Track Medicaid Access for Older Applicants
- Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ Many States Wind Up Expanding
- Journalists Weigh In on Racial Trauma, Medicaid Expansion, and Opioid Settlements
- How North Carolina Made Its Hospitals Do Something About Medical Debt
- Rural NC County Is Set To Reopen Its Shuttered Hospital With Help From a New Federal Program
- Vance Wrongly Blames Rural Hospital Closures on Immigrants in the Country Illegally
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Less Than Two Weeks To Go
- Beneficiarios de Medicare gastarán menos en medicamentos en 2025
- Medicare Drug Plans Are Getting Better Next Year. Some Will Also Cost More.
- Patients Are Relying on Lyft, Uber To Travel Far Distances to Medical Care
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Yet Another Promise for Long-Term Care Coverage
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Health of the Campaign
- Harris Correct That Trump Fell Short on Promise To Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices
- California Mental Health Agency Director To Resign Following Conflict of Interest Allegations
- A California Official Helped Save a Mental Health Company’s Contract. It Flew Him to London.
- Journalists Address Opioid Settlements, Undiagnosed ADHD, and a Georgia Chemical Fire
- California Continues Progressive Policies, With Restraint, in Divisive Election Year
- Mountain Town Confronts an Unexpected Public Health Catastrophe
- Víctimas del tiroteo del desfile del Super Bowl reconstruyen sus vidas, pero la violencia con armas de fuego sigue atormentándolas
- Super Bowl Rally Shooting Victims Pick Up Pieces, but Gun Violence Haunts Their Lives
- Extended-Stay Hotels, a Growing Option for Poor Families, Can Lead to Health Problems for Kids