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Diverse networks of friends, former co-workers, neighbors, and extended family are often essential sources of support for older adults living alone. Often it is the elderly caring for the elderly.

Researchers followed nearly 4,000 people for 24 years from the time of enrollment in the study in 1994. Researchers reviewed reports of loss collected periodically from participants.

Every year, Medicare officials encourage beneficiaries to shop around for their drug coverage. Few take the time. This year, it might be more important than ever.

Researchers find that “switching off” a protein with an injected antibody increased the healthy lifespan of older mice by almost 25%. The treated mice had lesser cancers and were free from frailty.

In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia by themselves often fall through the cracks.

Gulf Coast citizens 65 and older have had a difficult time after heavy hits from Helene and Milton. Many live in retirement communities with manufactured homes, which are easily destroyed during storms.

Older men who find themselves living alone tend to have fewer close personal relationships than older women. They’re vulnerable, physically and emotionally, but often reluctant to ask for help.

New court filings and lobbying reports reveal an industry drive to tamp down critics — and retain billions of dollars in overcharges. What is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doing about it?

A private 2014 decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services faces new scrutiny in a multibillion-dollar Justice Department fraud case against UnitedHealth Group.

Billie Bob Sykes joined the gym in 2000, when she was 75, because she felt she needed to exercise and be around people. As one fitness instructor notes: “She loves everybody; everybody loves her.”