The long-term care industry resisted a federal mandate to plan for disasters including pandemics. About 43% of nursing homes have been caught violating the requirement, including facilities that have now had deadly COVID-19 outbreaks.

Men respond to their spouse’s illness just as much as women do and as a result are better caregivers in later life than previous research suggests, according to a new Oxford University collaboration. The study, published in Journals of Gerontology, Series B, is good news for our increasingly stretched adult care services, which have become more reliant on patients’ family and spouses for support. Conducted with peers from the University of Pennsylvania...

As the number of people with Alzheimer's climbs, so does the number of loved ones caring for them. The health of 16 million unpaid U.S. caregivers has become a focus for Alzheimer's advocacy groups.

Dr. Michael Ulich became a pediatrician for a simple reason: he wanted to help kids. Ulich, who has practiced at Minden Pediatrics for the past 12 years, recently wrote The Times a frustrated email. "I am a local pediatrician in Minden and have had patients that are born to mothers who test positive for meth, marijuana or other illicit substances," he wrote. "As a mandated reporter, I call the state hotline for CPS and the local CPS office, and they will not open a case on the legal guardian."

A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.  Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mould in her apartment.

Family members are outraged over a letter telling residents of Manoir Notre-Dame special care home in Moncton, N.B., to ration their toilet paper and buy their own facial tissues. "I think it really shows a lack of respect, dignity and compassion," said Dianne Leger, whose 88-year-old mother has been living at Manoir Notre-Dame for five years.

Many caregivers find themselves trapped at home, neglected by friends and family members who don’t understand how to help.

I thought I could care for my dad after his Alzheimer's diagnosis. Like many caregivers, I was quickly overwhelmed

An ER physician laments the often-excessive care of older adults at the end of life, portraying it as a failure to recognize the full measure of their humanity.

A father who praised "the benefits of formula milk" saw his one-week-old son taken into council care, a court heard. Medical staff had told Kirklees Council of the man's "unorthodox views" about feeding including the need to sterilise bottles and social workers later removed the baby from the hospital. Care chiefs then "misled" a family court and falsely claimed the parents "agreed" to the child's removal.

98-year-old Mary reminds us that people her age are sometimes forgotten, but still very much alive. Call your grandma.

"Why take on the burden of caregiving? Grandma lived her life already; why give up yours? Why put everything on hold just to take care of her? There were several slices to the pie of why...." By Larry Handy.

"When I read Anne’s House of Dreams now, I wish for a narrative with Leslie, not Anne, as the protagonist." By Kate Washington.

After Ronald Reagan became America's most recognizable Alzheimer's patient, well-meaning friends, relatives and even strangers would routinely stop his daughter, Patti Davis, to ask: "How is he doing?" Only occasionally would someone ask, "And how are you doing?"

Interestingly enough, many of you learned some very similar lessons– here’s what we found and what you said:

Over the past decade I have read a great deal of material, both scholarly and anecdotally, on how our society views caregiving and the elderly. As a former caregiver and someone who has tried to advocate on behalf of caregivers, I have publicly shared some of my personal experiences and participated in some very interesting discussions.

It’s a question I’m asked all the time by family caregivers: Can I get paid to be a family caregiver? It’s usually accompanied by qualifiers: I’m not trying to be greedy, but I had to quit my job to take care of my mom. My husband isn’t comfortable having a stranger take care of him. My insurance will pay for someone to take care of my disabled sister and I’m a trained medical assistant – can’t they just pay me?

Over time, people with Alzheimer's become less able to manage around the house. Here are 20 ways to make your home a safer place for a loved one with dementia.

More than 5 million Americans currently have Alzheimer's disease, and the number is only going to increase — in part, due to aging baby boomers. But researchers say increased awareness and early detection is helping patients live with the disease.

My parents called me one day in March and started singing “Happy Birthday.” It was unsettling. My birthday is in May.