Vaccinations are underway, but the magic number to become vaccinated is age 65.

This is the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman said eligibility for the next phase, 1c, is still being decided. But right now in Illinois, people 65 and older are eligible to be ...Read more

Martha Gallagher, a 75-year-old retired school nurse, wanted to volunteer for the Delaware Medical Reserve Corps to administer COVID-19 vaccines.

She knew Delaware might need more vaccinators and thought, “Why not do something to help get the vaccine out?” Plus, Gallagher figured, it would be a good way for her to get vaccinated, too.

When...Read more

For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s time for them to open back up and relieve residents of crushing isolation, according to a growing chorus of long-term care experts, caregivers, consumer groups and physicians.

They’re calling for federal health authorities to relax ...Read more

For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s time for them to open back up and relieve residents of crushing isolation, according to a growing chorus of long-term care experts, caregivers, consumer groups and physicians.

They’re calling for federal health authorities to relax ...Read more

BALTIMORE – In the 1960s and ’70s, they called him “Dancing Harry.”

A fixture at Baltimore Bullets and then New York Knicks basketball games, Edward Marvin Cooper was a fan well-known for his moves, his costumes and the hexes he cast on whatever opponents dared set foot in the Baltimore Civic Center or Madison Square Garden.

Cooper, 77...Read more

DALLAS – Steve Austin, who often explains what an app is to his neighbors in his senior apartment community, has gained a robust social media following by sharing goofy antics and wearing hats. As Old Man Steve on TikTok, @omsteve, the 82-year-old retired Richland Hills businessman and bachelor has 1.4 million followers and more than 26 ...Read more

Opening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors.

Boston Medical Center, which runs the oldest in-home medical service in the country, started doing this Feb. 1. Wake ...Read more

Opening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors.

Boston Medical Center, which runs the oldest in-home medical service in the country, started doing this Feb. 1. Wake ...Read more

Robin Davidson entered the lobby of Houston Methodist Hospital, where her 89-year-old father, Joe, was being treated for a flare-up of congestive heart failure.

Before her stretched a line of people waiting to get COVID-19 vaccines. “It was agonizing to know that I couldn’t get in that line,” said Davidson, 50, who is devoted to her ...Read more

ANTIOCH, Calif. — A mobile “strike team” is bringing vaccines to some of Northern California’s most vulnerable residents along with a message: This is how you avoid dying from COVID-19.

So far, that message has been met with both nervous acceptance and outbursts of joy from a population that has been ravaged by the disease. One 68-year-...Read more

Robin Davidson entered the lobby of Houston Methodist Hospital, where her 89-year-old father, Joe, was being treated for a flare-up of congestive heart failure.

Before her stretched a line of people waiting to get COVID-19 vaccines. “It was agonizing to know that I couldn’t get in that line,” said Davidson, 50, who is devoted to her ...Read more

ANTIOCH, Calif. — A mobile “strike team” is bringing vaccines to some of Northern California’s most vulnerable residents along with a message: This is how you avoid dying from COVID-19.

So far, that message has been met with both nervous acceptance and outbursts of joy from a population that has been ravaged by the disease. One 68-year-...Read more

PHILADELPHIA – When artist Michele Tremblay was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2017, her first stay at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she underwent treatment, lasted 28 days. One of her friends, Christina Morin Graham, visited almost daily.

During those visits, Morin Graham noticed how dreary the view was from Tremblay’s ...Read more

Working 9 to 5 looks completely different these days, thanks to remote work. As much as some people embrace it, others are tired of looking at the same four walls. Well, what if those four walls opened to views of white sand beaches and palm trees, layers of snowcapped and forested mountains or so many acres of rolling pastureland you feel you�...Read more

Since Jesús Gómez got his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in January, he’s thought of his father every day.

The man who taught him to be strong and hardworking died of the coronavirus and was buried in Mexico the same day Gómez received the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at a pharmacy in the Chicago suburb where he lives, Gómez said recently....Read more

SAN DIEGO – Back in 1964, John Phillips became the first Black boxer in the United States to win a Golden Gloves state championship.

The retired truck driver, who turned 81 on Saturday, has a stack of faded newspaper clippings and photos at his San Diego home that attest to his pioneering Golden Gloves win. But these mementos are the only ...Read more

FREMONT, Calif. — Ursula Haeussler still remembers the frenzy of that day more than a century ago.

She had just sat down for breakfast at the kitchen table as the maid began the morning chores at their home on a small farm in a rural, idyllic German town.

Suddenly, just as the maid began fixing her apron, she collapsed onto the floor. ...Read more

A divide between “haves” and “have-nots” is emerging as older adults across the country struggle to get COVID-19 vaccines.

Seniors with family members or friends to help them are getting vaccine appointments, even if it takes days to secure them. Those without reliable social supports are missing out.

Elders who can drive — or who ...Read more

SAN DIEGO – Like many other San Diegans, Patricia Horvath has been daydreaming for months about what life will be like once she gets the COVID-19 vaccine.

Hug the grandkids. Take an international cruise with friends.

It'll be a real shot in the arm, the 81-year-old Point Loma resident figured, in more ways than one.

Except now that she's ...Read more

A divide between “haves” and “have-nots” is emerging as older adults across the country struggle to get COVID-19 vaccines.

Seniors with family members or friends to help them are getting vaccine appointments, even if it takes days to secure them. Those without reliable social supports are missing out.

Elders who can drive — or who ...Read more