On this date, in 1989, this Major League Baseball pitcher became the first to record 5000 strike outs when he fanned Rickey "The Man of Steel" Henderson. What is his name?A 42-year-old Salinas caregiver, who plead no-contest to severe neglect likely to cause great bodily injury or death and who allegedly received over $30,000 in unemployment while being paid as a caregiver, was sentenced to probation. A man in Chicago, caught on camera beating an Alzheimer's patient, was sentenced to two years in prison.
A new study shows that more than half of the elderly patients who have visited an emergency room were malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.
Persons with vitamin D deficiency are twice as likely to develop dementia.
NCOA: The National Council on Aging released it's 2015 Medicare Part D costs and coverage gap information graphic. Vaccines: What Medicare pays for fact sheet.
Fifteen percent of Americans 65 and older are living in poverty.
It's time to start preparing for the 2014 flu season.
A tough conversation, dealing with driving and dementia. Based on an assumption of risk, California court ruled that a caregiver cannot sue Alzheimer's patient under her care.
United Way Follies kicked off the 2014 United Way of Stephens County campaign.
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