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Lethal Plans: When Seniors Turn To Suicide In Long-Term Care
In a nation where the suicide rate continues to climb, such deaths among older adults are often overlooked. A six-month investigation by KHN and PBS NewsHour finds that older Americans are quietly killing themselves in nursing homes, assisted living centers and adult care homes.
How To Zero In On Your Final, Forever Home While Skirting Disaster
Confronting changing health care needs, fixed incomes and problems created by climate change can be overwhelming when trying to pinpoint that dream location, but taking time and doing research makes it a dream come true, say these seniors.
Listening To Older Patients Who Want To Stop Dialysis
Older adults with advanced kidney disease sometimes want to stop dialysis but often meet resistance from doctors, new research shows. We explore options available to these patients, including conservative care.
Assisted Living鈥檚 Breakneck Growth Leaves Safety Of Dementia Patients Behind
An analysis of inspection records in California, Florida and Texas shows significant numbers of violations related to assisted living residents with dementia.
At Death鈥檚 Door, Shedding Light On How To Live
When you learn you have a terminal illness, how do you live with purpose and authenticity?
Congress Targets Misuse Of Hospice Drugs
In the bipartisan opioid bill headed to the president鈥檚 desk, hospice workers would be allowed to destroy patients鈥 unneeded opioids, reducing the risk that families misuse them.
Readers And Tweeters Slice And Dice Precision Medicine, Step Therapy
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
La “medicina de precisi贸n” para combatir el c谩ncer no siempre logra su objetivo
Estas terapias focalizadas, que ajustan la medicina a la gen茅tica de la enfermedad, no tienen el 茅xito que los m茅dicos, y el p煤blico en general, esperan.
Much Touted For Cancer, 鈥楶recision Medicine’ Often Misses The Target
Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the patients they鈥檝e saved with precision medicine, and reporters love to write about them. But the people who die still vastly outnumber the rare successes.
Avoidable Sepsis Infections Send Thousands Of Seniors To Gruesome Deaths
No one tracks sepsis cases closely enough to know how often these severe infections turn fatal. But the toll 鈥 both human and financial 鈥 is enormous, finds an investigation by KHN and the Chicago Tribune.
Crear rituales para honrar a los muertos en los centros de vida asistida
Nuevos programas de ayuda abordan un problema pocas veces tratado: el dolor de amigos de residencia y personal cuando muere un adulto mayor en un centro de vida asistida.
Creating Rituals To Honor The Dead At Long-Term Care Facilities
Death and its companion, grief, are often ignored at nursing homes and assisted living centers. Yet ignoring the loss can lead to depression, staff burnout and other problems.
La 煤ltima sorpresa de la vida: adultos mayores que deben cuidar de sus padres
Con tratamientos m茅dicos que prolongan cada vez m谩s la vida, un nuevo escenario genera preguntas: adultos mayores de 60 o 70 a帽os que deben atender a sus padres nonagenarios.
A Late-Life Surprise: Taking Care Of Frail, Aging Parents
More and more older adults, age 60 and older, care for their elderly parents and face physical, emotional and financial stress.
C贸mo aprender a vivir bien con demencia
Dos expertas ofrecen estrategias y cambios simples para poder transitar esta etapa de la vida del ser querido protegi茅ndolo y ayudando a todo el entorno familiar.
Learning To Live Well With Dementia
Two leading experts on caring for people with Alzheimer鈥檚 offer ways to make life better for patients and their caregivers.
Missed Visits, Uncontrolled Pain And Fraud: Report Says Hospice Lacks Oversight
A new government watchdog report outlines vulnerabilities in Medicare’s $17 billion hospice program, pointing to inadequate services, inappropriate billing and outright fraud.
1,400 Nursing Homes Get Lower Medicare Ratings Because Of Staffing Concerns
Medicare said those homes either lacked a registered nurse for 鈥渁 high number of days鈥 over three months, provided data the government couldn鈥檛 verify or didn鈥檛 supply their payroll data at all.
‘Like A Ghost Town’: Erratic Nursing Home Staffing Revealed Through New Records
Daily nursing home payroll records just released by the federal government show the number of nurses and aides dips far below average on some days and consistently plummets on weekends.
El toque humano en un hospital: por qu茅 importa que los m茅dicos sean compasivos
La actitud de los m茅dicos al momento de hablar de temas dif铆ciles como el final de la vida pueden hacer la diferencia en la calidad de vida del paciente y las preocupaciones de la familia.
