There very well could be, two research studies suggest, and it’s your water faucet. Specifically, they suggest that drinking enough water...

It’s incontinence. Depending on whose statistics you believe, between 15 and 23million Americans have it, 80 to 85 percent of them women....

Issuing a Power of Attorney is definitely not a do-it-yourself project; you need to have a lawyer prepare the actual documents. But...

Back in the early 1950s, someone asked William Francis Sutton, Jr., AKA “Willie the Actor” and a felon on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list,...

It’s what happens during and after the recovery. Of all US surgeries, almost 40% are performed on patients 65 or older, almost one in...

For caregivers, 2023 can be a stressful, frustrating, guilt-filled year. Or it can be a loving, fulfilling, and affirming one. These five...

According to American Heart Association 2022 statistics, some 850,000 Americans a year have heart attacks, 41% of whom (350,000) die from...

If so, it’s not necessarily the doctors’ fault. It’s how they were trained. According to a new study published in The Lancet Digital...

In 2019, more than 1.3 million women over 65 underwent a Pap test, colposcopy, or some other cervical procedure, at a total cost of $83...

Virtually every aspect of a home can affect [a person with dementia’s] quality of life,” says Charles Fuschillo Jr., president and CEO of...

It depends. Medical research has found that exercise in general can help promote heart health, prolong life, and postpone the onset of...

Telehealth was originally for rural patients – to spare them hours of round-trip driving to keep a 15-minute doctor appointment. The...

Smartphones are an essential part of everyday life. For people like your parents – members of the Silent Generation or Baby Boomers –...

Now that the FDA deregulation I wrote about in August has taken effect, anyone over 18 years old can buy a hearing aid at a pharmacy, a...

Nobody ever said that caregiving for a parent was easy. It can rob you of personal, professional, and family time; eat into your...

It’s almost that time of year again. A little over two weeks from now, Medicare’s open enrollment period (officially known as the...

Almost 25% of all Americans 65 and older – some 13,525,000 men and women – have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. But another 4.7%...

Conventional health wisdom recommends walking 10,000 steps a day to stave off the onset of dementia. An international study, based in...

Nearly half of all Americans 65 or older – 45.6%, according to the Centers for Disease Control – have back pain. Many may not be treating...

Back in the 1980s, when the Reagan administration deregulated air travel, interstate trucking, and phone service, the result was more...