While our hearing is likely to weaken with age, there are things we can do to address hearing...
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Get the preventive care you need: Medicare pays for it
Preventive care is very important, especially as you age. As you get older, vision, hearing and...
How to get free or low-cost dental care
Because dental care can be so expensive and most insurance—including Medicare—does not cover...
Hospital care at home
More hospitals are training their emergency room staff in geriatric care and building geriatric...
Before paying drug copay, ask cash price
A new JAMA research letter reports that people are paying drug copays that are higher than the...
Risks of harm from surgery towards end of life often outweigh...
Medicare data reveals that almost one in three older adults have surgery in the year before they...
What to know about Medicare inpatient hospital care
Medicare Part A covers medically reasonable and necessary inpatient hospital care and discharge...
Seven reasons commercial insurance cannot meet our health care...
As policymakers, pundits and the public consider the path to universal health care coverage in the...
What Medicare covers
In order to plan for your care as you get older, it is good to know what Medicare covers and what...
Don’t sign a bank loan in the hospital
Shefali Luthra reports for Kaiser Health News on how unsuspecting patients are signing bank loans...