The incidence of type 2 diabetes increases with age, joining hearing loss as one of America’s most widespread health concerns. More than half of all U.S. adults with diabetes are seniors. That amounts to more than 23 percent of people over the age of 60 having a disease that can directly impact their ability to…
Compounding interest is a magical term when your bank or retirement account benefits. However, a growing number of older adults are being unexpectedly dinged by forgotten student debt. According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, over 16 percent of the $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt is attributed to individuals over 50 years…
Press Release: LOS ANGELES – The Milken Institute today began contacting mayors across America, asking that they commit to improve the lives of older people in their cities by signing the Best Cities for Successful Aging Mayor’s Pledge. The pledge, part of the Institute’s Best Cities for Successful Aging initiative, comes from the initiative’s advisory…
A recent report by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the AARP Foundation projects that Senior Housing is the next big American crisis. According to the report, “The public policy challenges are immense. Recognizing the implications of this profound demographic shift and taking immediate steps to address the deficiencies in the housing stock,…
William’s suicide thrust Parkinson’s disease onto the world stage recently. The progressive neurological disorder affects about 60,000 Americans each year. Well-known people like Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali and Janet Reno join the million or so Americans who struggle with symptoms such as tremors, vocal spasms and perhaps one of its most overlooked symptom—depression. This…
According to the 2012 Census, over 7 million grandchildren in America who are under the age of 18 live with their grandparents. Most live with them in a multigenerational household but almost 3 million live with grandparents that are their caregivers. In the ‘70s, to recognize this and other contributions that grandparents make to society,…
The Pierce County Health Care Providers Council of Pierce County sponsors several great events each year in collaboration with Pierce County Aging and Disability Resource Center. One of the best events is its annual Alzheimer’s Caregiver Conference, which they hold in September. The conference is an all day free event for anyone caring for a…
In 2009, Congress created a federal agency called the Recovery Board as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The aims of the board were two-part. The first part was to provide transparency of ARRA –related funds and the second to detect and prevent fraud, waste and mismanagement of Recovery Act…
Saving for retirement can be a daunting task. There are student loans, the cost of raising children, the mortgage on your house, health emergencies…the list can seem to be endless. Click here to see the long list of reasons we don’t save. If you’re like most Americans, you don’t have enough retirement savings socked away…
If you must choose a nursing home for care for either yourself or someone you love, do your research. But a recent story in the New York Times suggests your research needs to go way beyond trusting Medicare’s star ratings. That’s because much of Medicare’s vaunted star rating system relies on self-reporting and that reporting…
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