Senior Living

There is a dedicated hotline that travelers with disabilities or medical conditions and their families can call with questions or concerns about the security screening process.

Losing a husband is overwhelming and devastating. This book is an interactive workbook designed to help widows navigate both the financial and emotional dimensions of their loss.

Nursing homes are notoriously understaffed, but a new analysis reveals that the largest for-profit facilities typically maintain staffing levels nearly one-third lower than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes, resulting in a significantly lower quality of care.

Seven Medicare patients have filed a class action lawsuit challenging a Medicare policy that allows hospitals to place patients under observation for days on end rather than actually admitting them.

The news is full of stories about how private-sector retiree pensions and health insurance plans are in financial trouble. This book explains how the companies themselves played a big role in draining these plans.

The Obama administration has decided to halt implementation of the CLASS Act, a proposed national long-term care insurance program . . . ...

A new study finds that when medical personnel know what kind of care a patient wants at the end of life, Medicare can be spared . . . ...

The Obama administration may be on the brink of scuttling the CLASS Act, a new national long-term care insurance . . . ...

Marie-Therese Connolly is among 2011's winners of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called "genius grant."...