Health

by Drew Blankenship

Aging Parents Often Hide These 5 Infection Symptoms — Here’s What To Watch For Many adult children assume they would immediately recognize when an aging parent is seriously sick. In reality, infectio... read the story

by Amanda Blankenship

4 Lifesaving Telehealth Benefits for Seniors That Became Standard Under Recent Federal Rules For many seniors, telehealth started as a temporary pandemic convenience and quickly became a lifeline. Retirees managin... read the story

by Drew Blankenship

Dangerous Prescriptions: 6 Common Medications Doctors Are Now Warning Seniors Over 75 to Avoid As you get older, your prescriptions begin to interact with your body in a different way. Actually, many of the medicati... read the story

by Amanda Blankenship

Why More Young Americans Are Being Diagnosed With Heart Disease For decades, heart disease was viewed as a problem that mostly affected retirees and older adults, but doctors are now s... read the story

by Amanda Blankenship

Hidden Dangers: NSAIDs, Benzos and Antipsychotics Top the Beers List—Here’s Why Doctors Advise Caution Millions of older Americans take medications every day without realizing some of the most common prescriptions and over-... read the story

by Drew Blankenship

Federal Watchdog Finds Nursing Homes Sedating Dementia Patients with Antipsychotics — and Calls for a Crackdown Families place loved ones in nursing homes expecting safety, dignity, and compassionate care. But alarming new federal w... read the story

by Amanda Blankenship

This Woman Detected Her Husband’s Illness More Than a Decade Before Doctors Did—How It Could Change Medicine Most people would never imagine that a human nose could help reshape the future of medicine. But one woman’s extraordi... read the story

by Amanda Blankenship

Beware Benadryl and Ambien: Older Antihistamines and Sleep Drugs Can Cause Confusion, Falls and Hospital Visits For many older Americans, a simple over-the-counter allergy pill or a prescription sleep aid may seem harmless. After al... read the story

by Drew Blankenship

Experts Warn These 5 Gut Symptoms Could Signal a Bigger Health Problem Most people brush off stomach trouble as something they ate, stress, or simply getting older. But doctors say certain gu... read the story

by Drew Blankenship

A Blood Test That Predicts Alzheimer’s? New p-Tau217 ‘Clock’ Forecasts Symptom Onset Within 3–4 Years—20 Years If Elevated at 60, Just 11 at 80 An estimated over 900,000 Americans aged 65 and older develop Alzheimer’s disease each year. With numbers like that, m... read the story