If you’ve been following the news in recent decades, it’s no surprise that the Golden State is the U.S. capital for homelessness. And among the Californians experiencing homelessness, the group rising ...

Let’s be clear. The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide 90 percent protection against ...

An alarming share of older adults use credit cards to cover basic living expenses, AARP reports in a new survey. The findings illustrate how the rising costs of food, housing, health care and other ...

Errors in diagnosis are relatively common among older people. The reasons are many: older adults may have multiple conditions, take many medications, and illnesses can look very different in older ...

Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients. By Paula Span It turns out that the Isley Brothers, ...

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This Pew Research Center report looks at how Americans are thinking about aging and how things are going for adults ages 65 and older. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a behavioral statistician sharing my research in leadership development. A younger man showing an older colleague something ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leadership Strategist Dan Pontefract covers leadership and culture. The demographic shift is well underway. Wherever you look, ...

It was a Friday morning and George McCune had roused himself to make the 2.4-mile trip from his Northridge home to the Veterans Affairs campus in North Hills. The 77-year-old was greeted there that ...

The negative health impacts of alcohol have been in the spotlight since the surgeon general’s recent advisory, and now experts are warning that older drinkers might be more sensitive to those effects.

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