People with mid-stage and advanced dementia often follow a pattern: As the day goes on, they get more and more confused and agitated....

In theory, it’s very simple: If your retirement income exceeds your expenses, you’re in good shape. In practice, it’s, shall we say, more...

In an effort to ensure good care, Virginia law requires senior care agencies like Senior Insights to have a Registered Nurse perform...

Survey after survey shows that the overwhelming majority of older adults – in some surveys as many as 90% – want to spend the rest of...

A middle-age man worries aloud about his father driving at night. His father complains about being badgered by his kids about his...

Crises like pandemics can bring out the best in people – and, unfortunately, the worst. Using the pandemic as a handle, con artists have...

A widely used group of prescription and over-the-counter medications could speed up older adults’ mental decline, a series of studies in...

Being a family caregiver has never been easy. But now, with all the added stresses from the pandemic, it’s harder than ever – so much...

Buying groceries and other household items in bulk has always offered the chance to save money. Today, particularly for seniors, it also...

During sleep, your body restores, repairs and rejuvenates itself, and replenishes hormones to a healthy level. According to NIH...

The pandemic has accelerated three trends already in the works – and that’s good news for seniors. Remote Working In response to...

It should comes as no surprise to learn that pharmaceutical research and development isn’t cheap. Developing one cancer drug to the point...

If you subtract the statistics from just three states – New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, which account for 10% of the population...

Almost 6 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and just about everyone over 65 has at least some fear of getting it. The first step...

As Virginia’s reopening continues, churches, synagogues and mosques are reopening their doors – and that’s good for seniors who’ve been...

In 2005, when the first national telehealth network launched, telemedicine was intended to give primarily rural patients access to...

Last month, as Virginia was starting to reopen, I wrote about the advantages of using telemedicine for primary care. It turns out that,...

The older we get, the more prescription medicines we seem to need – sometimes too many. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 68...

Today, most of Virginia starts reopening. From today until at least the end of the month, restaurants, bars, breweries, wineries, places...

These are times of trade-offs. On the one hand, we want to be with our family members and get help in preparing meals, being mobile...