Health Care Decisions

Sibling relationships can be difficult even in the best of times, but add in an aging parent and there is bound to be some tension. This book offers insight and strategies to help siblings work together when established family roles...

Many people use the terms Alzheimer's disease and dementia interchangeably, but they have very different meanings. . .

Making decisions about elderly parents can cause conflict even in the best of families. In this book, three experienced elder mediators provide advice and tools for managing disputes with siblings.

A new study finds that when medical personnel know what kind of care a patient wants at the end of life, Medicare can be spared . . . ...

A New York court has suspended the accountant and attorney who were acting as executors for the huge estate of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. . .

A California insurance agent has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for selling an annuity to an 83-year-old woman who allegedly . . . ...

Living longer is supposed to be better, but that's not the reality in most cases argues the author of this thought-provoking book that examines the way the media portrays aging in America -- and how that portrayal is lulling us into complacency.

Assisted suicide is a controversial topic, but what exactly does the law say?...

A California jury has found that a doctor has no responsibility for a fatal car crash caused by an 85-year-old patient whom . . . ...