The number of hospital beds 'blocked' by elderly patients well enough to be discharged is 100 times higher than the figure first announced. Last week, the Government said that 6,000 beds were tied ...

The proposed care home would be built on a plot of land in Davenham, near Northwich, and provide specialist dementia care and ...

QMedic examined data from the Genworth Cost of Care Survey and the NCAL to determine the cost of senior assisted living in ...

A home health aide allegedly ignored an elderly man's fall, which led to his death. Beatrice Taylor, 25, was quoted saying ...

Getting older comes with the challenge of adapting your home to your shifting needs — whether that be installing a chairlift ...

A July 2022 research paper in ‘Health Science Reports’ stated that nearly 1.5–2 million older people in India suffer injuries due to falls every year, with 1 million succumbing to death as a result.

When severe, these conditions can limit a patient's ability to ambulate. If a very elderly patient becomes bed bound from etiologies other than an arthritic hip, the incremental benefit of hip ...

It's a new beginning for 95-year-old Esnart Moonga after the military built her a brand-new two-bedroom house days after a ...

Jerry and Marcia Savage's daughter told USA TODAY her late parents hugged so tightly in their Beech Island home, they had to ...

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

A 25-year-old Florida home health aide has been charged with manslaughter after she failed to call 911 when the 86-year-old ...

In fact, Gibb says some people’s skin doesn’t respond to a bed bug bite at all, which is especially the case for the elderly population. That’s why it can be difficult to determine if your ...