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Aging America: Elder abuse, use of shelters up
She raises her hands to her snow-white hair in a gesture of frustrated bewilderment, then slowly lowers them to cover eyes filling with tears.
Changing family dynamic may lead to tax relief
Members of the sandwich generation — caught between supporting elderly parents whose assets are nearly exhausted and adult children without jobs — ...
Help at hand when elderly relative's health fails
Marnie Schwartz was in California, a lawyer raising two toddlers. She was in no position to move across the country to care for her mother, who was ...
Aging drivers present new transportation challenge
Baby boomers started driving at a young age and became more mobile than any generation before or since. They practically invented the two-car family ...
UN urges protection for elderly as world grays
The fast aging of Japanese society is evident as soon as one lands at Tokyo's Narita airport and sees who is doing the cleaning. Young people tend to ...
Older voters look beyond Medicare, Social Security
Get in line, Medicare and Social Security. Seniors, like just about everyone else, have money on their minds. Who wins the trust of seniors, a group ...
Quitting driving: Families key but docs have role
Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys — but there's new evidence that doctors could have ...
Philippines' Oscar hope is drama on aging gay man
An independent drama that explores the loneliness and missed opportunities of an ailing, 70-year-old gay man is testing Philippine sensibilities about ...
Older drivers face confusing array of license laws
Jerry Wiseman notices it's harder to turn and check his car's blind spots at age 69 than it was at 50. So the Illinois man and his wife took a ...
Retirees head to unconventional destinations
When Peg Davis was ready to find a retirement community to move to, she looked north — not south — for a place to spend her later years. Rather than ...
Testosterone marketing frenzy draws skepticism
"Are you falling asleep after dinner?" "Do you have a decrease in libido?" "Have you noticed a recent deterioration in your ability to play sports?" ...
Boomers retiring to rural areas won't find doctors
Nina Musselman had no trouble finding a family doctor when she retired to rural Oregon nine years ago to be closer to her children. But then that ...
New ad campaign portrays caregivers' call for help
A woman grips her car's steering wheel and silently lets out a scream as her frail father, on oxygen, coughs beside her and her kids play around in ...
Ohio hospital shooting: Mercy killing or murder?
John Wise watched a tear roll down his wife's face as he stood alongside her bed in the intensive care unit. She'd been unable to speak after ...