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Medicare

Medicare & Home Care Better Investment Than Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug

If you could invest $56 billion each year in improving health care for older adults, how would you spend it? On a hugely expensive medication with questionable efficacy — or something else?

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Is Your Living Room The Future Of Hospital Care?

Major hospital systems are betting big money that the future of hospital care looks a lot like the inside of patients’ homes.

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Retirement communities

Seniors In Continuing Care Communities Feel Shut In

With tight restrictions in place at their continuing care retirement community, Tom and Janice Showler are getting on each other’s nerves.

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Program To Improve Elderly Mobility Feasible In Community Setting

Immobility in old age can lead to lower independence and quality of life and increased risk for falls and chronic disease.

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The Most And Least Affordable Places To Buy A Home

Whether you can afford a home depends, a lot, on the city you want to call home. A modest income can go a long way in Cumberland, Maryland, the metropolitan area with the nation’s most affordable houses.

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Boomers, Continuing Care Retirement Communities Want You

In her semi-retirement, Pat Kidd enjoys tennis every other day, plus daily trips to the gym and jet setting around the world.

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