Good morning and welcome to agebuzz… Headlining today’s topics:   -Breach Of Faith: No Guarantees With Hip Fracture Surgery -Spell It Out: Definitions For Various Medicare Terms -Nature Calls: Urinary Tract Infections In Seniors -Talk About It: Sleep Coaches Can Lead To Better Sleep -Fresh Air: Terry Gross Introduces Us…

Most of us can easily recognize the discomfort: burning, pain, annoyance. Let’s face it: urinary tract infections (UTIs) are no fun. If you are older, a UTI may be less easy to detect but possibly life-threatening. Millions of seniors wind up in hospitals each year due to UTIs and many…

Most of us have a basic sense of what Medicare is: health insurance for older people. But the components of Medicare, and the expanse of its coverage, are often more complicated than beginners realize.  Different parts, different enrollment options, some things covered, some things not- an array of terms that…

You tune in to Terry Gross on NPR to hear her insightful interviews with celebrities, intellectuals, policy makers and pundits- overall, an array of fascinating characters who reveal themselves in intimate conversations. In one of her most recent interviews, Terry introduces you to Kerry Egan: a young hospice chaplain, aware…

In a new study just published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers have determined that 1/2 of older people who undergo hip fracture surgery never fully recover nor return to their previous levels of independence. Most hip fractures result from falls. This study, however, underscores that once you…

Sleepless nights often lead us to desperate measures. Way too many of us, seniors especially, turn to medications to try to coax sleep along- which can lead to real risks for older people. But it turns out that CBTI (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia)- essentially a talk therapy- can bring…