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Insurance: Are Seniors Being Duped into Buying Policies They Don’t Need?
Insurance salespeople often prey on seniors, using scare tactics to trick them into buying policies they don't need. Get advice on protecting your aging parent.

Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Issues That Affect Caregivers Most
A side-by-side comparison of John McCain and Barack Obama on topics that affect people caring for aging parents.

Cost of Caring for Aging Parents Could be Next Financial Crisis
AgingCare survey finds that 63% of caregivers don’t have a plan to pay for their aging parent’s care.

Nursing Homes: Perceptions and Realities
Separating what may be true and what may be not true when an aging parent needs skilled nursing care outside of the home.

Disaster Preparedness: Make Sure You & Your Aging Parents Are Ready
Whether you live in an area where the prevalent natural disasters are earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires or tornadoes, there are some things you can do to prepare yourself and your elderly parents for “the big one.”

Elders and Sex: Who Gets to Decide What is Proper?
With people living longer in assisted living, more romances among elders are blossuming. Just what does the home allow these folks to do?

The Noise in Your Ears: Facts About Tinnitus
Tinnitus is a symptom associated with many forms of hearing loss.

What is Glaucoma?
Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can damage the eye's optic nerve and result in vision loss and blindness.

Understanding Stages and Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease develops slowly and causes changes in the brain.

New Study Demonstrates Combined Techniques to Detect, Monitor Alzheimer's Disease
The search for new measures, or "biomarkers," to detect Alzheimer's disease before signs of memory loss appear has advanced an important step in a study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Diabetes and Oral Health
People who have diabetes know the disease can harm the eyes, nerves, kidneys, heart and other important systems in the body.

Diabetes in Older People - A Disease You Can Manage
Diabetes is a serious disease. People get diabetes when their blood glucose level, sometimes called blood sugar, is too high.

Diabetes & High Blood Pressure: The Two Leading Causes of Kidney Disease
Diabetes and high blood pressure can damage your kidneys and lead to kidney disease.

Diabetes Prevention Program
The Diabetes Prevention Program was a major clinical trial, or research study, aimed at discovering whether either diet and exercise or the oral diabetes drug metformin could prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance.

Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies for Diabetes
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, defines complementary and alternative medicine as a "group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.

What Is Angina?
Angina is chest pain or discomfort that occurs when an area of your heart muscle doesn't get enough oxygen-rich blood.

Variations in Genes Can Influence the Risk of Developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Other Disease Such as Cancer
A team of researchers has determined that variations in certain genes involved in fighting infection can successfully predict the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness.

Dealing with an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
Finding out that a loved one has Alzheimer’s disease can be stressful, frightening, and overwhelming.

Finding Care at the End of Life
At the end of life, each story is different. Death comes suddenly, or a person lingers, gradually failing.

Concerned About Constipation?
Nearly everyone becomes constipated at one time or another.