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Adult children and family caregivers who are caring for an aging parent can take these 10 steps to get ahead of a crisis.

A 2025 federal budget law was promoted in part as a way to protect Medicaid for those who truly need it. But for the roughly 12 million people who rely on both Medicare and Medicaid, the law creates immediate risks.

A federal law going into effect in 2028 will cap the amount of home equity a person can have and still qualify for Medicaid long-term care at $1 million.

If your Medicare Advantage plan is terminated or leaves your area, you’ll revert to Original Medicare, but you must act to keep drug coverage. Learn deadlines, options, and how to get free help.

A proposed rule announced in March 2026 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would introduce, for the first time on a broad scale, work requirements and time limits across the country’s major rental assistance programs.

Findings from a recent study suggest that grandparents who care for their grandchildren score higher on tests of memory and verbal skills than those who don’t. For grandmothers especially, that involvement may actually slow the brain’s natural cognitive decline over time.

In honor of April Fool’s Day, this article uses satire to highlight common Social Security mistakes.

Dementia does not simply affect memory. It disrupts the entire system of thinking, planning, and executing the everyday tasks most of us take for granted, including feeding ourselves.

Under a new policy, government attorneys can now go to court to ask a judge to appoint a legal guardian – often when a qualified family member is unavailable – over a veteran who is deemed unable to make their own health care decisions.

Though the crisis of rising health care costs touches Americans of all ages, older adults face a particularly difficult set of challenges. They tend to need more medical care, yet many live on fixed incomes that haven’t kept pace with rising costs.