At its core, the intentions of hospice care are noble: to provide care for those nearing the end of life. Many who choose to enter themselves or their loved ones into hospice care are drawn to its heavy focus on comfort, dignity, and quality of life during its final stages...

Rural America is continuing to get older, and a new report shows the extent has hit a new high. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual Rural America at a Glance report shows more than 20% of rural residents are over the age of 65 compared to 16% in urban areas...

Nearly 26 million Americans 50 or older now live alone, up from 15 million in 2000. Older people have always been more likely than others to live by themselves, and now that age group—baby boomers and Gen Xers—makes up a bigger share of the population than at any time in the nation’s history...

Every great cause, wrote the American longshoreman and philosopher Eric Hoffer, begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket...

Meet Mr. Rudy. Rudolph Young, if you’d like to use his full name, though no one here does. On a chilly October morning, he rests in a twin-sized bed, wearing checkered boxer shorts and bright yellow safety socks, a plastic thimble of pills perched on his stomach...

There’s a reason you’re in my life.” That’s what nurse Gladys Wilkins tells each of her patients when they check in to the Hospice House in Slidell.

A retired librarian, Ms. Ingersoll never married or had children. At 77, she has outlived her
parents, three partners, her two closest friends, five dogs and eight cats...

About 72% of respondents to a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) survey said they do not believe that the U.S. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population...

Of the many bills Ohio legislators are considering in the current lame-duck session, state Sen. Steve Huffman's update to his medical marijuana law has among the best chances of passage during the four working weeks on the schedule...