Medicare

Anyone who has signed up for Medicare or is anticipating doing so in the foreseeable future knows that it can be a cumbersome and complex process, with lots of factors to consider and decisions to be made. While ample resources exist to help you understand the Medicare system, it’s always…

It’s been almost 2 decades since the FDA approved any new therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. In that time, patients and families – as well as their care providers- have struggled with the reality of limited benefit from current medication options and a failure rate of 98.5% of…

It’s a truism we’ve addressed many times: most of us would prefer to “age in place” as we get older. We want to stay in a familiar environment, among the people and places we love, rather than move to a facility. But for many, physical impairment may accompany aging, so…

Conventional wisdom suggests that osteoporosis (the bone disease involving loss of bone mass or creation of too little bone) is a disease most prevalent in older women. While both older men and even younger men and women can be diagnosed with it, the reality is that most in the medical…

In an important recent article in The New York Times, writer Paula Span raised a valuable topic that many find taboo to discuss: that is, seeking out mental health therapy as an older adult. Lord knows the past many months have led many of us to the brink of despair:…

It comes like clockwork every Fall. As anyone over age 65 knows, we are now at the beginning of Open Enrollment season for Medicare. As we’ve noted in prior agebuzz posts, this is the time of year (from Oct. 15th – December 7th) that Medicare enrollees have the opportunity to…