Sam Whitehead / KFF Health NewsJun 17, 2024
Aging with HIV comes with an increased risk of health complications, and many worry the U.S. health care system isn’t prepared to treat this growing population. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
MATT SEDENSKY and JOHN LEICESTER / The Associated PressMar 5, 2020
With 17 times as many new infections outside China as in it, Italy and Iran close schools; travel and events are canceled; and markets yo-yo. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 4, 2018
A largely unregulated arrangement for senior citizens who cannot manage their own affairs leaves many vulnerable to being scammed, an issue that threatens to worsen as the elderly population in the U.S. grows. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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DAVID SHARP / The Associated PressFeb 18, 2018
“If the president ... did away with that funding, I have no idea how we’d survive in the winter,” says a Maine diabetic who is on disability after losing part of a foot to infection. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff and Chris Hedges / TruthdigJan 17, 2018
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discusses "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" with author Jessica Bruder in an eye-opening conversation about America's mobile elderly workforce. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Tim Reynolds and Terry Spencer / APSep 14, 2017
Emergency personnel across hurricane-raked Florida work to ensure the safety of elderly residents after eight die in sweltering nursing home. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
By Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger / ProPublicaJan 17, 2017
When Steven Mnuchin ran OneWest, the bank aggressively and, in some cases, wrongly foreclosed on elderly homeowners with reverse mortgages. The bank had a disproportionate share of such foreclosures. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 29, 2015
For years now we've heard about randy grandparents getting nasty in the old folks home. Yet studies of septuagenarian sex continue to make the news as if it's weird, shocking or gross. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 15, 2014
An estimated 2 million Americans age 60 and older are in debt from unpaid student loans, whether from money borrowed long ago or from more recent borrowing to fund degrees for family members. And some are having their Social Security payments garnished as a result. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 25, 2014
Cost concerns may derail efforts by lawmakers and advocates to require more frequent inspections and a swifter response to allegations of abuse and neglect. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 21, 2014
America is one of the few countries lacking federally funded family leave, but the former secretary of state can't see it happening anytime soon; it's detrimental to think of Alzheimer's as a natural consequence of growing old; meanwhile, fireflies, those beautiful glowing insects, are cannibals. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 22, 2014
California lawmakers last week unveiled a dozen legislative proposals aimed at stiffening regulations governing the state’s roughly 7,700 assisted living facilities, residences that offer room and care to tens of thousands of frail or ailing people, most of them seniors. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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