seniors

A sedative shouldn’t be the first thing tried to help people with dementia who exhibit distressing behaviors. A new website is a comprehensive, free resource that offers guidance to caregivers.

Clinicians in Southwest Florida are seeing this trend and trying to educate patients who are in relationships that may not be monogamous.

Many older adults who need hospital care are getting stuck in ER limbo — sometimes over a day. The long waits for seniors who are frail, with multiple medical issues, lead to a host of additional medical problems.

The Do More, Feel Better program trains seniors to help other older adults plan activities, which can boost mental health.

It’s estimated that an older patient can spend three weeks of the year getting care — and that doesn’t count the time it takes to arrange appointments or deal with insurance companies.

Because music helps people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia bring out memories, some Jews in South Florida find Yiddish songs effective.

Assumptions that older people are one big, frail, homogenous group can lead to problems, says the author of Elderhood.

Florida lawmakers in Tallahassee are considering major changes to the state's Purple Alerts used to help find missing adults who suffer from an intellectual or developmental disability.

A study involving 17 senior communities, including one in Pompano Beach, is part of a effort to adapt virtual reality so it can be beneficial to the health of older adults and lessen the impact of dementia.

COVID would be a wake-up call, advocates for the elderly predicted: proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults. But decisive actions experts had hoped for haven’t materialized.