One in six people 60 years and older has experienced abuse in a community setting, the World Health Organization says.

Earlier this month, a nursing home in Union County was hit with a $16,000 penalty after the state Department of Health found ...

Frail older adults who urgently need help with meals, bathing, and cleaning to remain in their homes are shut out of assistance they qualify for because of big holes in Massachusetts' state budget.

Home nursing care is generally skilled medical care delivered right in your loved one’s home. That could mean help managing ...

Finding the right place for a loved one—or for yourself—to receive the care and support needed later in life is one of the ...

Residents in skilled care often carry a high burden of comorbidities, with their cardiovascular disease complicated by ...

Regulators cut the nursing home off from Medicare and Medicaid funding in April over substandard care and the conditions ...

“If you have an older adult in your life who has been in a nursing home or received help at home with cooking, bathing, dressing, chances are Medicaid was involved,” said Natalie Kean, director of ...

I was a public critic of President Biden’s malevolent hostility toward nursing home care and was happy to see his days in office end. But what if those ...

The federal government has resumed its practice of disclosing to the public its list of the nation’s worst nursing homes — ...

A federal judge in Texas blocked a policy aimed at increasing staffing requirements within long-term care facilities and ...

Beaver County, like the entire state of Pennsylvania, is aging quickly. In fact, by 2030, 1 in 3 Pennsylvanians will be 65 ...