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Una decisión difícil: cuando los adultos mayores tienen que dejar de conducir
Lewis Morgenstern ha tomado una decisión. Cuando cumpla 65, dentro de cuatro años, va a firmar una directiva anticipada sobre conducir.
El documento indicará que se alejará del volante cuando sus hijos se lo pidan.…
Estados utilizan dinero de Medicaid para combatir la violencia con armas de fuego
Samantha Young
Cada vez más estados utilizan fondos de Medicaid para abordar el problema de las armas, financiando programas comunitarios que tienen como meta prevenir masacres.
Con estos recursos se están creando…
Covid sigue matando gente. Esto recomiendan los médicos para protegerse
Con alrededor de 20,000 muertes a causa de covid en Estados Unidos desde principios de octubre, y decenas de miles más en el extranjero, la pandemia claramente no ha terminado. Sin embargo, la respuesta a la crisis sí, ya que…
With Trump Front of Mind, New Hampshire Voters Cite Abortion and Obamacare as Concerns
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News
HANOVER, N.H. — Health care issues are important to Lana Leggett-Kealey, who works as a genetic genealogist. But on Tuesday, as she walked out of her polling place at a local high school and into a…
In Los Angeles, Occupational Therapists Tapped to Help Homeless Stay Housed
LOS ANGELES ― Carla Brown waits on an air mattress, eager for her occupational therapist to arrive at her apartment next to the Hollywood Freeway, mere blocks from where she once camped on the sidewalk.
She moved into…
988-Hotline Counselors Air Concerns: More Training Needed to Juggle a Mix of Calls
In the year and a half since its launch, 988 — the country’s easy-to-remember, three-digit suicide and crisis hotline — has received about 8.1 million calls, texts, and chats. While much attention has been focused on who is…
Preparing to Hang Up the Car Keys as We Age
Judith Graham
Lewis Morgenstern has made up his mind. When he turns 65 in four years, he’s going to sign an advance directive for driving.
The directive will say that when his children want him to stop getting behind the wheel,…
Medicare Advantage Is Popular, but Some Beneficiaries Feel Buyer’s Remorse
Medicare Advantage plans are booming — 30.8 million of the 60 million Americans with Medicare are now enrolled in the private plans rather than the traditional government-run program.
But a little-known fact: Once you’re in…
What’s Indoor Air Quality Like in Long-Term Care Facilities During Wildfires? Worse Than…
Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idaho’s Treasure Valley, it blankets Boise-area residents in dirty air.
They include…
Líderes comunitarios alarmados por el aumento de la tasa de suicidios en hispanos
Si tú mismo o alguien que conoces está sufriendo una crisis de salud mental, contacta a la Línea de Prevención del Suicidio y Crisis del 988, llamando o texteando “988”.
DALTON, Georgia.- Un grupo, desde adolescentes…