Tens of billions of dollars of benefits, including from Medicare, are going unused every year because seniors don’t know about them, find applications too difficult to complete, or feel conflicted about asking for help.
Cognitive decline varies widely among people who have started experiencing memory and thinking problems or who are in the earliest stage of Alzheimer’s — the patients who received Aduhelm.
Prescriptions for a controversial new drug for Alzheimer's could run $56 billion a year, putting a significant financial burden on Medicare, the health insurance for the elderly.
Jul 6, 2021
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The PDX Commons Cohousing is located in Southeast Portland./Joanne Fox
Members of PDX Commons, a Portland community for adults 55 and older, disagreed about what to do about unvaccinated visitors -- allow them in or ban them?
Prospects for the president’s proposal are uncertain. Republicans decry its cost and argue that much of what the plan contains doesn't count as real infrastructure.
Apr 12, 2021
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Mardell Reed says she wasn’t sure she’d get the vaccine originally but she changed her mind “once we all started hearing from actual scientists rather than politicians.”Heide De Marco/Kaiser Health News
Registered nurse Stefania Silvestri, certified nursing assistant Edwina Gobewoe and recreational therapist Kim Sangrey are three nursing home workers who struggle with grief over the suffering from COVID-19 they’ve witnessed. (Stefania Silvestri, Fil Eden, Kim Sangrey)
Many nurses and other workers in long-term care facilities are struggling with the suffering they've witnessed on the job, with residents pleading for their family when visitors weren't allowed.