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The Biden administration proposal is intended to ensure higher-quality care by requiring minimum staffing per resident.

Ozempic and related medications are changing how ordinary people as well as medical experts think about obesity.

The proposal improves on current Medicare coverage, which allows cost-sharing fees and mostly excludes long-acting PrEP.

More people are learning that audio screenings are the best way to address possible age-related hearing loss.

Before they get COVID, people over 65 should have a plan for accessing antiviral treatment.

Glasgow Manifesto calls for care, quality of life and empowerment for aging and older adults living with HIV.

Three quarters of those who opted for medical aid to end their lives were people with cancer.

The laws governing traditional Medicare don’t provide for coverage of self-administered diagnostic tests.

Even with this increase, older individuals now have better transplant outcomes.

Vaccines also prevented 100,000 hospitalizations and 39,000 deaths in this population.

Can immunization therapies help older people stay functional?

Only 20% of older adults received hearing screenings in the last two years.

Between 2.0 million and 4.4 million older adults are homebound, but they haven’t been recognized as a priority group for vaccines.

In most places, elderly people are pitted against one another, competing on an unstable technological playing field for limited shots.

Seniors in nursing homes and assisted living centers will be among the first to vaccinated. Other older adults may have to wait longer.

Individuals report that their health and well-being is worse because of the social distancing required during the pandemic.