Health Care for Seniors Archives

How Nursing Home Staff Biases Drive Inequitable Care

Jasmine Travers shares research showing how racial biases can impact care for Black nursing home residents with advanced dementia.

A doctor, a patient and a former federal official weigh in on Medicare’s recent move to restrict access to a new Alzheimer’s treatment.

Atheendar Venkataramani writes about a pair of studies showing how investment in Medicaid home and community based services benefits caregivers.

President Biden wants to make a huge investment in an often neglected part of the health care system.

Many older adults were already lonely and isolated before this crisis began. How are they faring now and what’s being done to help them?