After nearly 30 years, the Obama administration wants to modernize the rules nursing homes must follow to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid payments. The hundreds of pages of proposed ...

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) released its annual Retirement Confidence survey recently, and — as usual — the report contained loads of interesting insights. One ...

  LOCKHART, Texas — The call from the nursing home came just before dawn, jolting Martha Sherwood awake. During the night, fire ants had swarmed over her 85-year-old mother, ...