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The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway.
“The person said he was an officer of the Department of Criminal Investigations...
In her house in Ypsilanti, MI, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.”
Video games have always been part of Shawn Etheridge’s life. His interest was first sparked as a young teen, when he toted rolls of quarters to a nearby mall to play arcade games like Pong. As...
“KFF Health News” coverage of longevity and our aging society is supported in part by The Silver Century Foundation.
The conventional wisdom used to be that seniors would be slow to adopt new...
Elderspeak is a kind of baby talk sometimes used when speaking to older people, especially those living with dementia. Elderspeak is common and it’s alienating. Journalist Paula Span reports...
“KFF Health News” coverage of longevity and our aging society is supported in part by The Silver Century Foundation.
Authors: Kaye Pestaina, Rayna Wallace, Michelle Long, Meghan Salaga, and Emma...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it: dementia rates are dropping. There are more cases because there are more older people as a percentage of the population, and age is the biggest risk...
I made my first real friend when I was 11 and she was 12. Marsha moved in on the block. Soon after, her mother saw my mother in the backyard and said she had a daughter about my age. My mother...
I got a call from my neighbor Marion.
“I need to talk to you. My friend Jean was just diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I want to visit her, but I don’t know what to say to her. What do you say to...
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