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.

The wife shared that her husband uses adult briefs because using the bathroom is too difficult ... manage this aspect of his physical care. More:Senior grateful to have home but wishes he ...

WASHINGTON – In a stunning change of tune, President-elect Donald Trump told Time in an interview published Thursday that the transgender bathroom debate isn’t that important and doesn ... in ...

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Palliative care is a holistic approach that treats a person with serious illness of any age, and in any setting. It involves a range of care providers and includes the person's unpaid caregivers. If ...

Part of a church parking lot has been transformed into affordable homes for vulnerable seniors in Walnut Creek, California ... Residents will be referred through the coordinated entry system for the ...

From a rise in crime, to the inappropriate use of restraints in long term care homes in the province; these are just some of the issues facing seniors, as highlighted in a recent report by the Seniors ...