Due to the continued confusion on the issue, Toni is rerunning this column from May. It has been slightly updated.

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We may experience lighter sleep, frequent awakenings or difficulty falling asleep due to reduced production of melatonin, health conditions or medications. It's not an overstatement to say that poor ...

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.

A hospital was told to review its discharge policy after an elderly man who had been a patient died with frostbite in his ...

Note: Due to the continued confusion on the issue, Toni is rerunning this column from May. It has been slightly updated.