For many people, retirement is one of those things that has always been on the horizon at just enough distance not to warrant any real concern related to what to …

According to ExperienceWorks, an organization that helps older adults find work, by the year 2020, nearly 25% of workers will be age 55 or older. Older women, veterans, and workers …

In most cases, the need to downsize is a function of the need to move. Moving from the family home can be one of the most stressful events an older …

Oftentimes, family members become frustrated if they face resistance from their elderly relatives when they suggest having help or considering another place to move. In many cases, this resistance comes …

The Hospice movement was started in Britain in 1967 by a physician, Cicely Saunders, who advocated pain management for the dying. Her philosophy was that dying people needed dignity, compassion …

There were 26.8 million households headed by someone 65 and older in 2013, up 24{d0e74b8a3596e4326b45924d39792f257a1f9983beed4201831d386befd3d18e} from 10 years earlier. The U.S. Census Bureau also found that households headed by a …

The Journal of General Internal Medicine recently published a report that looked at data from more than 3,000 people covered by Medicare to gauge the impact of health care cost …

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of four older adults (those aged 65 or older) falls each year.1 In 2013, 2.5 million nonfatal falls among …