A new study by Paul Fronstin at the Employ Benefits Research Institute finds that people’s out-of-pocket health care costs in retirement have increased significantly in the last year. Ginger Szala...
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Caregiving: A mediator could help minimize stress among siblings...
Growing old can be difficult, not only for yourself but for your loved ones. It is not uncommon for siblings to drift apart or, worse still, do battle, around how best to care for an aging parent...
New lower-cost housing option for older adults
At some point as they age, the majority of older adults will need assistance with daily activities as a result of a disability. Sally Abrahms reports for Next Avenue on a new housing option that...
DCE “experiment” could mean total privatization of...
In 2020, the Trump administration launched a plan to hand traditional Medicare over to Wall Street. Inexplicably, the Biden administration is playing along. The overwhelming evidence demonstrates...
Coronavirus: The future of Omicron
Megan Molteni reports for StatNews on the future of Omicron. Sadly, we ain’t seen nothing yet. Omicron and its variants could be with us for longer than imaginable, and it could have particularly...
Teva found partly responsible for opioid crisis in New York
To be sure, multiple actors are responsible for the opioid crisis in the US, some are finally being held to account, others not. Last month, we reported on a federal jury that found three chain...
VSED, an end-of-life choice
When it comes to health care, there seem to be fewer and fewer things that the US health care system gets right. End-of-life matters are no exception, with hospitals generally keeping people alive...
Roundup: Caregiving
Over the last several years, we have posted a series of pieces to help caregivers care for an aging loved one. You can find most of the key posts in this roundup: Planning ahead Why you and your...
Biden administration should lower price of prostate cancer drug...
In an opinion piece for StatNews, Peter Arno et al. explains how the Biden Administration could save the lives of thousands of people with prostate cancer. Specifically, they show how the...
Biden simplifies access to Social Security and other government...
Justin Sink and Jennifer Jacobs write for Bloomberg on an executive order just signed by President Biden that makes it much easier for people to collect Social Security and many other federal...