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Some Medicare Advantage insurance plans to offer broader array of in-home support services next year

Dutch prosecutors say they will prosecute a nursing home doctor for euthanizing an elderly woman with dementia, the first time a doctor has been charged since the Netherlands legalized euthanasia in 2002

NEW YORK & TUCKER, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 30, 2018--TripleCare, a national provider of telemedicine-based healthcare services to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), announced today it has introduced...

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, says she has the beginning stages of dementia and "probably Alzheimer's disease." O'Connor made the announcement in a letter Tuesday

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, says she has the beginning stages of dementia and "probably Alzheimer's disease." O'Connor made the announcement in a letter on Tuesday

Chief Justice John Roberts says he is 'saddened to learn' that Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, has the beginning stages of dementia

A group that encourages African-Americans to vote says about 40 black residents of a senior living center in Georgia were told to get off a bus taking them to vote

AP-NORC Poll: Many caregivers skip their own checkups in health care balancing act

Tens of millions of Social Security beneficiaries and other retirees can expect a 2.8 percent increase in benefits next year as inflation edges higher

Tens of millions of Social Security beneficiaries and other retirees can expect a modest increase in benefits next year as inflation edges higher