Elderly News

Instead of subsidizing coverage for a Honda version of health insurance, the governor wants to use your money to provide a Cadillac plan - a self-inflicted extra cost.

A man going by Capt. Jack Truska, Sgt. Drumbowski or "some other gruff TV cop name" is targeting elderly women and scamming them out of tens of thousands of dollars, according to the Seattle Police Department.

A fire at a senior citizen high-rise in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood left an elderly woman critically injured Friday afternoon.

The indictment alleges that Benchmark Capital, Inc. was engaged in an elaborate scheme that lured investors, many of whom were elderly, into investing their retirement savings and the equity in their homes in phony annuity investments.

BULL CREEK ATTACK: Police say a man fitting this description punched a shopper in the face, knocking her to the ground.

Forced federal spending cuts intended to be equal and across-the-board have lately fallen harder on the nation's poor, sick and elderly.

A charitable trust which runs a care home in Stamford is being taken to court over the death of an elderly woman resident.

The election of 2012 is over, but the extremists persist in their desire to eliminate the deficit by destroying Medicare, Social Security, and entitlements.

Ed Husic presents the Judges Commendation Award to Shweta Sharma with two judges, Josephine Rechichi and Chris Pilao looking on.

A South Florida woman is facing a grand theft charge after she drove an elderly man to Broward County banks and made him withdraw tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said.

A certified nursing assistant is accused of taking money from the room of an elderly woman living at an assisted living facility in Town and Country.

THE economic downturn is having a marked impact on the wellbeing of 'asset rich, cash poor' older people in Dorset, Bournemouth University researchers have found.

The Newington Town Council last Tuesday, May 14, officially approved an application for a $20,400 technical assistance grant that will be used to hire a consultant to advise them on areas within which senior citizen housing can be constructed.

A shocking one in three pensioners are struggling to make ends meet as bills for everyday essentials continue to rocket and incomes fail to keep up.

The cheerful voice on the phone says you can protect yourself and your loved ones with an emergency medical alert.

A Nashville judge has permanently suspended the public guardian of Davidson County while citing "significant concerns" that she charged excessive fees to the elderly and disabled people she is supposed to protect.

As Grace Wells set out Mary Owens' meal on a table, she and her niece Jamie Featherston chatted with the 91-year-old woman.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - South Dakota authorities are asking their neighbors in Minnesota to keep their eyes open for a missing elderly man in the early stages of dementia.

Russell County citizens should be cautious of callers claiming to represent Medicare or Medicaid, due to a foreign scam which has increasingly targeted elderly residents during the past two months, according to the Russell County Sheriff's Office.

An east-central Idaho nursing assistant has pleaded guilty to removing pain patches from elderly patients at a nursing home so she could use them herself to get high.