As people have more opportunities to eat rice cakes during the year-end and New Year season in Japan, there are greater ...

John Singh, a case manager at the Interfaith Community Shelter in Santa Fe, once found himself talking to an unusual client who identified herself as JonBenét Ramsey. "It took us three months to find ...

A NUMBER of senior citizens have reported problems with getting their medicine discounts from the drug stores. By law, they ...

Thank you. Gema G. Hernandez, DPA, is former secretary, Florida Department of Elder Affairs, retired university professor and part-time resident of Fort Myers Beach.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court to involuntarily dissolve ...

Plans for the military to participate in the detention and deportation of 9 million immigrants will have negative ...

From learning a new skill to prompting federal legislation, here are some of the ways people’s lives were affected by the NPR ...

Lack of sufficient funding "is forcing families to make tough decisions regarding placing a loved one in a nursing home," legislators and advocates wrote the governor.

Kuster of New Hampshire, announced that they were retiring from public service, but the story of their last days played out ...

Older borrowers are among the fastest-growing segments of the government’s student loan portfolio and their Social Security ...

according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD). A family called 911 about 7:30 p.m. Pacific time to report their elderly relative, who suffers from dementia, had vanished after ...

Chatham County launched a new effort earlier this month to create strategies for better addressing the long-term needs of ...