Skip to content

Med-stat.info

The latest health news

  • Coronavirus
  • Biotech
  • Health Tech
  • First Opinion
  • In the Lab
  • Pharma
Main Menu

Tag: aging

First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

20.04.2022

When the Covid-19 pandemic began tearing across the country, it hit nursing homes hard. More than 200,000 residents and staff members at long-term care facilities have died from the disease. …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: Report: U.S. nursing home care is ineffective, inefficient, inequitable, fragmented, and unsustainable

06.04.2022

Nursing homes have been at the epicenter of the pandemic, though they have fallen off the radar for those who aren’t living or working in one, or don’t have loved …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: My aunt’s ‘Kafkaesque journey’ to get the home care she needs

26.08.2021

As an attorney who has concentrated in elder law and long-term care rights for more than two decades, I was only too happy to help my aunt, who suffers from …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: An ENT physician & an advocate on the high monetary and social costs of hearing loss

18.08.2021

Although hearing loss is a common aging-related problem, affecting two in three Americans over age 70, many people still struggle to afford simple solutions such as hearing aids. In this …

Read More
Biotech

Anti-aging foundation’s CEO left amid an investigation of co-founder Aubrey de Grey

13.08.2021

The CEO of the SENS Research Foundation left his job and seat on the organization’s board in July amid an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against the anti-aging nonprofit’s high-profile …

Read More
Coronavirus / Health

The decision to pull loved ones out of nursing homes when the pandemic hit was a great alternative — for those who could afford it 

12.08.2021

Every night since March 2020, Brianna Grech has ended her day the same way: She tucks in her two children and then descends the stairs to her basement, where she …

Read More
Biotech

Anti-aging research pioneer Aubrey de Grey placed on leave over sexual harassment allegations

11.08.2021

Aubrey de Grey, the jet-setting gerontologist who co-founded the SENS Research Foundation to discover ways to reverse the ravages of aging, has been placed on leave by the foundation after …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: Ridesharing can help older people be functionally independent in their homes, communities

10.08.2021

The United States has experienced a particularly rapid period of expansion of the older adult population since members of the baby boom generation began entering older adulthood nearly a decade …

Read More
First Opinion

Opinion: Making hearing aids affordable isn’t enough. Older adults also need hearing care services

06.08.2021

When Anne Madison noticed her hearing was declining at age 66, she struggled. She had always prided herself on being a savvy health care consumer, but when it came to …

Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 … 4 Next
Copyright © Med-stat.info
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy