Healthcare
The New York Times, June 24 2008Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60.
Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65.
Fact: The number of people over 100 doubles every decade.
Fact: As they age, people lose muscle mass
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The New York Times, June 25, 2008To cut costs and reduce fraud in one corner of the sprawling
Medicare program, Congress called for competitive bidding on medical
equipment that is provided to elderly and disabled Americans and set a
sensible schedule
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The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2008In the spring of 2001, Bill Thomas, dressed in his usual sweat shirt
and Birkenstock sandals, entered the buttoned-down halls of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. His message: Nursing homes need to be taken
out
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YahooNews, June 11, 2008For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the
government reported Wednesday, although the United States continues to
lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span.
The increase is due mainly
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The New York Times, June 4th, 2008Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human
lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give
impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.
The study is based on
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New York Times, May 25th, 2008First thing every morning, Lynn Pitet, of Cody, Wyo., checks her
computer to see whether her mother, Helen Trost, has gotten out of bed,
taken her medication and whether she is moving around inside her house
hundreds of
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NYTimes, May 3rd, 2008
When David Bunnell, a magazine publisher who lives in Berkeley, Calif., went to a FedEx store to send a package a few years ago, he suddenly drew a blank as he was filling out the forms.
“I couldn’t remember my address,” said
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NYTimes, May 5th, 2008
Edie Gieg, 85, strides ahead of people half her age and plays a fast-paced game of tennis. But when it comes to health care, she is a champion of “slow medicine,” an approach that encourages less aggressive — and less costly —
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Yahoo News, April 14th, 2008Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for
seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage
them from getting quality care.
"We face an impending crisis as the growing number
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US News & World Report, March 27th, 2008Older Americans are living longer than ever and enjoying better health and financial security, a new report finds.
Yet there continue to be lingering disparities between racial and ethnic groups.
In 2006,
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The New York Times, March 23rd, 2008New government research has found “large and growing” disparities in
life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth
of income inequality in the last two decades.
Life expectancy for the nation
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Yahoo News, March 5th, 2008A couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 in savings to
cover medical costs in retirement, according to a study released
Wednesday by Fidelity Investments.The figure, calculated for a couple age 65, is up 4.7 percent
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Center for retirement research at Boston College, February 2008As the baby boomers begin to retire, a great deal remains unknown about
the evolution of wealth toward the end of life. In this paper, we
develop a new measure of household resources that
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The Atlantic Online, February 23rd, 2008It is cliché to speak of sleepy little
country towns, but my mother’s hometown goes beyond sleepy into Rip van
Winkle territory. Newark, New York, has more churches than bars. Neat
clapboards and stately Victorians
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Yahoo News, January 28th, 2007Now, Brown and other U.S. medical schools are plugging
geriatric courses into their curricula and adding specially
trained faculty members as they respond to an imminent boom in
the number of older Americans and the need
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