There's a huge cohort of people who are aging without immediate family members to help them. Advocates say this is an opportunity to build better support for everyone.

Caregiving for a loved one is not just a good deed. It’s a public health issue.

About 63 million Americans, or a quarter of adults over 18, take care of an older or disabled person at home, and many rely on Medicaid funding for help.

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Those caring for relatives with severe disabilities say planned Republican cuts will be fatal for some

With an aging baby boomer population, the demand for family caregivers in the U.S. has never been higher. While traditionally, most family caregiving has fallen to women, men are now increasingly join...

48 million caregivers in U.S. face emotional, physical and financial struggles.

The National Institutes of Health and some VA regions are scouring existing grants using lists of flagged words, which include not just known trigger

The budget framework lays a path for a future budget bill that could pay for increased military and homeland security spending with harmful policies that take food assistance and health coverage away ...

Chopra was one of the last regulators left in government from the Biden administration.

Readers discuss the harms it would have caused and view it as a sign of incompetence. Also: D.E.I. at NASA; dementia cases; against deportations.

Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.

The move, which comes less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, represents a challenge to the new administration.

The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.

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Instead of spending money on gleaming new hospitals and expensive drug therapies, Portugal focuses on old fashioned primary care and public health

Many older adults living alone, isolated and vulnerable, struggle with health issues. But a noteworthy slice of this growing group of seniors maintain a high degree of well-being. Meet Hilda Jaffe, ag...

The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.