Deluge of elderly to swamp U.S. communities: study
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A tidal wave of aging Baby Boomers   will overwhelm many U.S. communities with special needs such as   handicapped access and long-term care, but fewer than half of   cities and towns have begun to plan for it, according to a   report released on Wednesday.
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The U.S. government plans to hire  nearly 150,000 people in the next two years, but most will  replace existing workers while an aging workforce will  intensify competition from the private sector, a study released  on Wednesday showed.
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Old age is "an illness for which there is no cure" for many employers, according to new research.
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More than one fifth of elderly people feel they are living in poverty and 28% say their lives have got worse, a survey says.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Hurricane season is here, and the American Geriatrics Society offers advice to seniors to help them prepare for any potential natural disaster.
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About a third of all Americans live in counties that do not meet seven-year-old standards for microscopic particles of pollution that cause thousands of premature
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Localities are tailoring services to help aging populations live longer in their own homes.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- Women who become caregivers to elderly parents are more likely to end up living in poverty later in life, claims a study by researchers at Rice University in Houston.
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A wide variety of experts on long-term care have expressed serious concern that the new Medicare law will be unworkable for most of the 1.5 million Americans who live in nursing homes.
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NEW YORK  - Screening elderly adults for signs of abuse may catch many more cases than otherwise would be, a new study suggests.
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People who live in sprawling communities tend to suffer more health problems, according to the first study to document a link between the world of strip malls, cul-de-sacs and subdivisions and a broad array of ailments.
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Security weaknesses have left millions of elderly, disabled and poor Americans vulnerable to unauthorized disclosure of their medical and personal records, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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Understanding doctors' orders can be a matter of life or death for senior citizens: those who had trouble comprehending their physicians died sooner than their more savvy peers, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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An unprecedented study of sex and seniors finds that many older people are surprisingly frisky &#151; willing to do, and talk about, intimate acts that would make their grandchildren blush. That may be too much information for some folks, but it comes from the most comprehensive sex survey ever done among 57- to 85-year-olds in the United States.
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.
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Thirteen of the 31 deaths linked to Hurricane Charley in Florida last month were people over age 60, many of them apparently overwhelmed
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Elderly and ill blacks in the United States are more likely to live in poor-quality nursing homes, researchers said on Tuesday in a study that shows clear patterns of segregation persist.