seniors

As your circle of close friends shrinks, there are ways to rebuild — but not replace — the social network you had when you were younger.

Persistent fatigue — the feeling of having no energy — can contribute to frailty and affects 40% to 74% of older patients with chronic illness. Yet, its causes can be elusive.

Researchers are identifying new ways to assess older adults’ social circumstances and identify risks that can compromise their health. “It’s a more complete picture of older adults’ circumstances than any one factor alone,” one expert said.

Older people often aren’t being screened for anxiety disorders, even though it is a common affliction — one masked by other problems when growing old.

The president outlined his plan in a guest essay in The New York Times, writing that Medicare is a "rock-solid guarantee that Americans have counted on to be there for them when they retire.”

Facilitator Pamela Levin of the Alzheimer's Association said Art Connects ALZ is a relaxing program using watercolors . It's therapeutic but not art therapy or art instruction.

Depending on where they lived, demands for repayment can drain the assets that a patient on Medicaid leaves behind after they die. Iowa aggressively collects "clawback" funds.

Programs assisting people with dementia — and their caregivers — improve quality of life and care. But millions of unpaid family and friend caregivers may not know where or how to find help.

"This is an awful situation that has caused unnecessary trauma for the impacted resident and her loved ones," the New York attorney general's office told NPR.

Prosecutors claim Jorge Carballo abandoned his patients, going home after the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills lost power to its air conditioner during the 2017 storm. Nine people died.