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A pilot program providing more assisted living coverage in rural California has emerged from one man’s fight to change his sister’s options. -
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Allison Aubrey, health and science correspondent for NPR and the author of Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love. You can share your story of midlife reinvention. -
A new statewide campaign is helping families learn about hospice care earlier, giving them more time to understand their options and make decisions before a crisis. -
Health Net’s decision to cut assisted living benefits for roughly 3,500 low-income seniors could force some of them onto the streets, critics fear. -
If approved by the CSU Board of Trustees, the project would include 224 independent and assisted living residences, 26 memory care residences and several amenities. -
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities can be fertile ground for violence between residents with dementia, including fatal assaults. Court records and inspecitions how safeguards fall short. -
A proposed Medicare rule would require hospitals to report whether patients’ end-of-life care preferences are documented, a change doctors say could encourage earlier conversations. -
A new study of people 80 and older with exceptional gaits finds fast walkers have about a 50% lower risk of cognitive decline, showing the connection between physical health and brain health. -
The governor’s budget proposed changes to health care coverage, including excluding undocumented immigrants from most health care services. -
The Allen Institute in Seattle says scientists have now learned enough about how the brain works to start fixing it when it breaks.
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