Hospice agencies in the United States vary widely in their use of benzodiazepines and antipsychotics, according to a new study...

Private equity’s ownership of U.S. healthcare providers is incompatible with the needs and best interests of patients and should be checked with federal legislation...

Today, six years after the family was told she was about to die, Couch is still alive. Couch’s family believes someone else is to blame for nearly killing their mother...

Use of marijuana and CBD products has grown more common among middle-aged and older adults as they become legal in more states and more widely available in easy-to-take forms such as edibles...

Hospice saved Medicare $3.5 billion in 2019, according to a study released early Tuesday by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago...

There’s growing evidence that mushrooms could be used as medicine to treat everything from depression and PTSD to substance use disorder and even to help people cope with dying...

Three main factors drove the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ decision to extend the value-based insurance design model through 2030: patients’ social needs, health equity and improved care coordination...

A larger proportion of older adults live in rural areas than urban areas, and the proportion of older adults in suburban and rural areas is projected to increase in the coming decades...

Senate Bill 94, which would give qualifying advanced practice registered nurses the chance at more independence in Kentucky, passed the Senate on Feb. 24 and the House on March 10...