About 24,000 additional nursing-home residents will be sedated just to keep them under control as a result of the defeat of the Biden administration’s staffing mandate, new research says. The chances ...

Earlier this month, a nursing home in Union County was hit with a $16,000 penalty after the state Department of Health found it did not have enough people to care for its residents on at least 16 days ...

Dear Eric: While having lunch with my 75-year-old mother the other day, she suddenly announced that she does not want to live in a nursing home. She repeated it several times. Unfortunately, my mom ...

Research shows that older adults want and need sexual intimacy well into their later years. But when they move out of their homes and into long-term care communities, they have a lot less privacy and ...

In nursing homes across Florida, elderly residents have much to lose from the spending cuts proposed in Washington, D.C. Medicaid is the primary payer for nursing-home care in Florida — and the only ...

The hot, new places for baby boomers to spend their golden years: their own home.

There are some universal challenges that all people face with aging, and there are steps everyone can take to prepare. A geriatrician explains them.