Virginia’s 670,273 military veterans make up 10.3% of its population. That’s the nation’s second-highest proportion of veterans. Only...

Healthwise, coffee’s reputation is, at best, mixed. On the downside, early medical studies found that drinking coffee could spike blood...

So are pollen, mold, dust, deer ticks, adenovirus, rhinovirus, and norovirus. And after a long, cold winter, people are more apt to...

Contrary to stereotypes, older drivers can be safer drivers. While there are more drivers in their 70s driving more miles each year, a...

More accurately, those minutes can keep years from being subtracted. “We’ve known for probably about a decade now that [prolonged]...

About 15% of American adults over 65 are considered frail, in that they meet three or more of these criteria: · Low physical...

As an unpaid family caregiver, you’ll find yourself doing things for your parents that they did for you as a child. Or fussing...

The problem isn’t waking up in the middle of the night; cycling out of sleep every two hours or so is normal. The real problem is not...

There very well could be, two research studies suggest, and it’s your water faucet. Specifically, they suggest that drinking enough water...

It’s incontinence. Depending on whose statistics you believe, between 15 and 23million Americans have it, 80 to 85 percent of them women....

Issuing a Power of Attorney is definitely not a do-it-yourself project; you need to have a lawyer prepare the actual documents. But...

Back in the early 1950s, someone asked William Francis Sutton, Jr., AKA “Willie the Actor” and a felon on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list,...

It’s what happens during and after the recovery. Of all US surgeries, almost 40% are performed on patients 65 or older, almost one in...

For caregivers, 2023 can be a stressful, frustrating, guilt-filled year. Or it can be a loving, fulfilling, and affirming one. These five...

According to American Heart Association 2022 statistics, some 850,000 Americans a year have heart attacks, 41% of whom (350,000) die from...

If so, it’s not necessarily the doctors’ fault. It’s how they were trained. According to a new study published in The Lancet Digital...

In 2019, more than 1.3 million women over 65 underwent a Pap test, colposcopy, or some other cervical procedure, at a total cost of $83...

Virtually every aspect of a home can affect [a person with dementia’s] quality of life,” says Charles Fuschillo Jr., president and CEO of...

It depends. Medical research has found that exercise in general can help promote heart health, prolong life, and postpone the onset of...

Telehealth was originally for rural patients – to spare them hours of round-trip driving to keep a 15-minute doctor appointment. The...