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If there’s perhaps a silver lining to the coronavirus outbreak, it’s the light that’s been shone on older adults and the often suboptimal choices they face when it comes to housing. In particular, we’ve seen stark imagery of the understaffed and frankly dismal options older adults may confront when it…

As fast as the Coronavirus seems to be spreading, so too does our understanding of who’s at risk and how we can best protect ourselves and our loved ones. Since last week, one fact has become quite clear: According to the CDC, older adults, and especially those over 80 or…

By now you’ve likely heard about the coronavirus, the respiratory viral infection that appears to spread from person-to-person by respiratory droplets. While our understanding of the disease, its origins and spread within our communities is rapidly evolving (the news in this post is current as of March 4th, 2020), at…

At a minimum, when a loved one is admitted to a nursing home, you would hope that he or she enters a safe, reputable and responsible facility. While there are many good facilities across the country, there also seems to be trouble brewing below the surface, trouble that often evades…

When it comes to healthy aging, it seems that paying attention to your teeth and gums is as important as eating well and exercising. Not only is your oral hygiene and dental health more at risk as you age but the implications of poor care or neglect may have repercussions…

If you or a loved one has been hospitalized in recent years, you’ve probably had this experience: You’ve barely put on the hospital gown when a “discharge planner” starts the conversation about where you’ll go once the hospital decides you should leave. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to start…