Age Well
The secretary of state is trying to permanently raise driver testing requirement from 75 years old to 79.
With an aging population, the health care system is facing a crisis, experts say. We all can see the results in things like the long waits to get in to see a doctor.
Once people are in their 50s, it’s a good idea to have a hearing test yearly as part of their preventive care.
The Utah senator has every right to call it quits. But his call for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump not to run again borders on ageism.
Aging isn’t for cowards. Longevity is a blessing that should be celebrated, not ridiculed. Longtime Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell aims to view aging in a different light in her new column, called “Starting Over.”
The findings back “the hypothesis that centenarians are enriched with protective factors that increase their ability to recover from infections,” one of the researchers says.
Death from prostate cancer occurred in 3.1% of the active-monitoring group, 2.2% in the surgery group and 2.9% in the radiation group — differences considered statistically insignificant.
Compared to people with consistent sleep duration, those whose sleep duration varied by more than two hours in the same week were 1.4 times more likely to have high levels of coronary artery calcium, a major contributor to heart attacks and strokes.
The federal Medicare agency will require next to nothing from insurers for excess payments they got from 2011 to 2017 and won’t impose big penalties until audits for 2018 and beyond are conducted, which could be years.
Leqembi can slow early progression by months but has safety concerns. Most patients will likely have to wait months to get the IV drug, which will cost about $26,500 a year. Insurers need to decide whether and how much to cover it. Medicare isn’t expected to pay for it until later this year.
First made available in October for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss, they’re cheaper and easier to get. Here’s a guide to who can use them and how to get them.
Medical house calls fall under the category of home-based primary care.
The Food and Drug Administration said the new regulation creates a new class of hearing aids that don’t require a medical exam or prescription. They’ll be sold online or over-the-counter at pharmacies and other stores.
The new study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association’s annual conference marks the longest test of whether exercise makes any difference once memory starts to slide.
Every year, 36 million adults over 65 suffer a fall in the United States, with more than three million ending up in an emergency room, over 800,000 needing hospitalization and 32,000 dying.
Part B premiums are $170.10 a month vs. the $160.40 the Medicare agency says it would have recommended had a big price cut and limits on the drug’s use been in place when it calculated the figure.
The skid has financial planners hearing more from anxious clients, some pushing back their retirement in hopes that will buy time for their investments to bounce back.
‘We know a lot of people may face barriers or red tape in terms of being able to maintain coverage even if they’re eligible,” a Kaiser Family Foundation official says.
The designated hours, instituted at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, will be in place until April 17 for members 60 and older, health workers and first-responders.
The changes that occur in the larynx, where the voice originates, are known as presbylaryngis, also called vocal fold atrophy.
January’s anti-fatness may be cloaked in wellness and body positivity, but its core message to potential customers is the same it’s always been: their body is not good enough and they have not been disciplined enough to lose weight.
M.J. Eberhart, who lives in Alabama, started walking when he retired over a quarter century ago. Now, he’s walked into the record books, topping 82-year-old Dale ‘Greybeard’ Sanders,
As Democrats try to design a dental benefit for the program, one idea being considered calls for limiting it based on income. But that’s drawing a lot of opposition.
A growing number of people 70 and older have amassed substantial followings on social media with the help of decades-younger fans.
It’s a stressful transition when adult children begin to see their parents less as capable caregivers and more as those needing care themselves.
Research shows there are generally seven risk factors and behaviors people can change to preserve good brain health. They are: not smoking, staying physically active, losing weight, eating a healthy diet, and controlling blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
When Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s mother began to forget things, Stratton didn’t know the signs of Alzheimer’s. Her mother was undiagnosed until three years before her death, leading Stratton on a journey culminating with a pioneering bill that makes Illinois the first state to require Alzheimer’s training for health care professionals.
Behind it all is a deep desire among Americans to maintain their independence in an aging society.
Arthritis can affect anyone. It’s estimated that up to one-fourth of Americans have some type of arthritis. It’s one of the leading causes of disability in the United States.