Senior Living

A new survey of nursing homes by Consumer Reports finds that poor care is still common, but that not-for-profit nursing homes tend to provide better care than for-profit facilities.

This guide provides a way for adults, while they are still of sound mind, to map out in detail the care they would wish to receive if they become incapacitated.

Once considered a rarity, centenarians are the world's fastest-growing age group. Living to 100 presents findings from the first systematic study of those living past the century mark and concludes that these pioneers are changing the way we view...

Nursing home residents are experiencing serious problems receiving the correct medications since implementation of M...

Many courts are still doing a poor job of monitoring guardians to prevent the abuse of wards, the persons placed und...

As parents age, their needs begin to change. This revised and expanded edition of a bestselling book can help adult children deal with these changes as they occur.

Three books '“ all by medical professionals '“ offer inside tips on how to not only survive a hospital stay but actually come home healthier than when you went in.

If you have a chronic medical illness, the last thing you want to hear is that your insurance company is denying cov...

As the states implement the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which became law in February 2006, qualifying for Medicaid nursing home benefits will become more difficult.