For older adults, no disaster is simple. Repeated hurricanes, floods, wildfires and heat waves can combine with chronic ...

Several tools are currently used to assess the health of older people and their risk of future health problems, but it is unclear which perform best. A new study published in BMC Medicine compares ...

Drinking nitrate-rich beetroot juice may do more than support heart health — it could actually reshape the bacteria living in the mouth in ways that help lower blood pressure in older adults. In the ...

Poor housing conditions increase the risk of falls among older adults, and the associated healthcare and social costs exceed $1 billion each year, according to a study published last week in PLoS One.

They hop across ledges and vault over railings — and no, they're not teenagers. On a sunny Friday morning, a group of nine people gathered at an exercise corner in one of Singapore's public housing ...

For 35 years, Barbara Senich only owned black pants. “I thought somehow, that would make me look less big,” said Senich, 69, who has struggled with obesity for most of her life. At her heaviest, ...

With Québec’s provincial election now behind us, voters in British Columbia (municipal, October 17, and provincial, October 24) and Ontario (municipal, October ...