As geezers continue flocking to providers of knee-replacement surgery, recent research suggests those covered by Medicare may be taking more risks than their privately insured peers.
Outpatient services are pushing the modern hospital to the margins of the healthcare industry, a trend that offers both benefits and challenges to the Medicare set.
Even a little physical activity can go a long way toward extending your lifespan, according to several recent studies. Just be careful crossing the street.
When we’re laid low by some malady, what would happen if we welcomed the pain rather than trying to escape from it? My recent attempts produced rather mixed results.
Recent research links negative perceptions of aging to dementia, but that’s not the only reason to stay upbeat as you grow old.
A new study reveals a fragmented and inefficient longevity industry. I’m not the only one who hopes it stays that way.
With the long-term-care industry collapsing, forcing millions of elderly Americans to choose between higher premiums or a loss of coverage, I’m reminded how little control we have over our futures.
New research suggests that poor oral hygiene may contribute to cancer, a conundrum few geezers can afford to address.
Like many geezers, I’m determined to avoid institutional housing when I’m too old to fend completely for myself. To do so, however, I may have to become more sociable.
New research suggests that harmonizing our aging brain waves may help us store new memories for the long-term, but it’s a notion that becomes less useful the older we get.
The oldest among us aren’t upbeat because they’ve survived; they’ve survived because they’re upbeat.
While opioid abuse gets all the headlines, new studies have revealed a more widespread drug epidemic among the Medicare set. And efforts to mitigate it are not encouraging.
A trip to the East Coast reminds me why travel can be so hard on geezers.
The dermatology industry is booming, powered by unnecessary procedures performed by unlicensed practitioners. And geezers are the primary victims.
Afternoon bicycle trips to the coffee shop may be extending My Lovely Wife’s lifespan — in more ways than one.
Geezers facing ever stricter demands to lower their blood pressure might want to look beyond the American medical-pharmaceutical complex for guidance.
For more than a half-century, scientists have wondered why our genes should be kinder to youth than the elderly. A new study suggests genetics may be subject to change as we age.
With an alarming percentage of elderly Americans going under the knife each year despite a level of frailty that makes survival a dicey affair, surgeons are pondering alternatives.
In the past five years, researchers have identified some 500 unnecessary procedures and tests regularly perpetrated on anxious healthcare consumers, yet doctors continue to recommend them and we continue to acquiesce.
Frequent tumbles are a way of life — and death — for the elderly. But the latest prevention strategies seem riskier than sprinting down a well-waxed tile floor.
Little good can come from projecting your lifespan or falling prey to a late-life medical intervention.