Senior Living

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has unveiled a one- to five-star rating system for nursing homes to help consumers select a facility...

The current economic downturn could affect where elder care is provided and who provides that care...

The $250 stimulus payment for Social Security beneficiaries is not considered income to nursing home residents on Medicaid . . .

A geriatrician offers an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at the long-term care system from a nursing home physician's perspective.

A federal court has ruled that a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) can force one of its residents...

What would you do if both your parents asked you to assist them with their suicides within the same year? A decade after the fact, a son recounts how he fulfilled his parents' wishes.

The Bush administration quietly issued a rule last fall closing off a key source of information about abuse and neglect in nursing homes...

Elder financial abuse costs older Americans more than $2.6 billion a year, but for each case of abuse reported. . .

The general perception of long-term care facilities is of places to be avoided at all costs. This book is intended to dispel that...