Deluge of elderly to swamp U.S. communities: study
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A tidal wave of aging Baby Boomers   will overwhelm many U.S. communities with special needs such as   handicapped access and long-term care, but fewer than half of   cities and towns have begun to plan for it, according to a   report released on Wednesday.
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Out-of-pocket costs may be causing millions of older adults in the U.S. to cut back on prescriptions for conditions as serious as diabetes, asthma and depression, a new study suggests.
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Elderly and ill blacks in the United  States are more likely to live in poor-quality nursing homes,  researchers said on Tuesday in a study that shows clear  patterns of segregation persist.
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The Census Bureau says the population of those 65 and older will increase more rapidly in the West than in any other area of the country. While retirees settle in, states are figuring out how to keep up with an aging population. Will there be enough doctors and nurses? Hospitals and nursing homes? Will housing be affordable?
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Many experts are concerned that the new Medicare law will be unworkable for most Americans who live in nursing homes.
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By STAFF  As the country's senior population grows, local services and agencies are dealing with an influx of calls from those caring for seniors who can no longer care for themselves.
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Most Americans over the age of 42 misjudge their need for long-term medical care and the costs entailed, a dangerous ignorance, the senior lobby AARP said in a study released on Wednesday.
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Around the country, tens of thousands of senior citizens have hunted down and lined up for flu vaccinations over the past several weeks, with many turned away at the clinic doors.
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Though elderly Americans are the highest-risk population in the country for suicide, few suicide-prevention programs target them, advocates say
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A wide variety of experts on long-term care have expressed serious concern that the new Medicare law will be unworkable for most of the 1.5 million Americans who live in nursing homes.
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NEW YORK  - Influenza-related  hospitalizations have increased dramatically in the US in the  last two decades, in part because of the aging population,  according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical  Association.
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At a time when local governments are in a whirl of planning for aging baby boomers, folks in one Montgomery County community have mastered the art of delivering senior-friendly services.
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A new study based on more than three decades of U.S. data suggests that giving flu shots to the elderly has not saved any lives.
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The long-term economic health of the United States is threatened by $53 trillion in government debts and liabilities that start to come due in four years when baby boomers begin to retire.
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In the past decade, the number of elderly Americans in assisted living has tripled, to nearly one million.
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A wide range of experts on long-term care express serious concern that the new Medicare law will be unworkable for most of the 1.5 million Americans who live in nursing homes.
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Older men who were classified as "highly fit" died at half the rate of those who were not fit in a major long-term study, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.