By Judith Graham- Kaiser Health News For years, Dr. Linda Fried offered older patients who complained of being lonely what seemed to be sensible guidance. “Go out and find something…
By: Sharon Jayson (KHN) AUSTIN, Texas — Connor Wilton moved here for the music scene. The 24-year-old singer-guitarist “knew zero people in Austin” and felt pretty lonely at first. While…
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Compassion for a hungry stray cat led to a nip on the finger — and also took a bite out of Jeannette Parker’s wallet. In…
By: Judith Graham Kaiser Health News About 25 million Americans who are aging in place rely on help from other people and devices such as canes, raised toilets or shower…
By Bruce Horovitz -Kaiser Health News It takes moxie to flip an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one — particularly for folks over 60. Most baby boomers approach retirement age…
By April Dembosky, KQED Even after all she had been through — the helicopters circling her house, the snipers on the roof and the car ride to jail — Lisa…
Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News and Sydney Lupkin, Kaiser Health News Lisa Crook was lucky. She saved $800 last year after her insurance company started covering a new, less expensive…
Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio Tammy Fox wanted to help after a friend took ill with a rare and difficult-to-diagnose autoimmune disorder that required many trips to the Mayo Clinic.…
Christine Herman, Side Effects Public Media When Toni and Jim Hoy adopted their son Daniel through the foster care system, he was an affectionate toddler. They did not plan to…
By JoNel Aleccia and Melissa Bailey With a bullet in her gut, her voice choked with pain, Dee Hill pleaded with the 911 dispatcher for help. “My husband accidentally shot…
Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News The federal government has taken a new step to reduce avoidable hospital readmission’s of nursing home patients by lowering a year’s worth of payments to…
Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Voters this year have told pollsters in no uncertain terms that health care is important to them. In particular, maintaining insurance protections for preexisting conditions…
Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News The inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services this month launched an examination into federal oversight of skilled nursing facilities amid signs…
Ana B. Ibarra, Kaiser Health News By now, many parents know kids are vaping sweet-smelling tobacco — often using devices that look deceptively like pens or flash drives. And most…
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Accountable care organizations were among the key initiatives of the Affordable Care Act, designed to help control soaring Medicare costs. ACOs were expected to save…
Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News When the American Medical Association — one of the nation’s most powerful health care groups — met in Chicago this June, its medical student caucus…
Medicare has lowered its star ratings for staffing levels in 1 in 11 of the nation’s nursing homes — almost 1,400 of them — because they either had inadequate numbers…
By Melissa Bailey/Kaiser Health News Elderly patients spent over two weeks in uncontrolled pain or respiratory distress. Acute care was rare on weekends. And recruiters went door to door pitching…
Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Of all the promises President Donald Trump made for the early part of his term, controlling stinging drug prices might have seemed the easiest to…
Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Hospital pharmacist Mandy Langston remembers when Lulabelle Berry arrived at Stone County Medical Center’s emergency department last year. Berry couldn’t talk. Her face was…
