The Ohio Department of Aging has launched a pilot program offering a friendly ear to state residents ages 60 and older who are craving a conversation or human connection during the pandemic.

The telephone chats, which began last month, are open to anyone in that age group who signs up for Staying Connected, a free, daily automated check-in ...Read more

Months into the coronavirus pandemic, older adults are having a hard time envisioning their "new normal."

Many remain fearful of catching the virus and plan to follow strict precautions - social distancing, wearing masks and gloves, limiting excursions to public places - for the indefinite future.

Mortality is no longer an ...Read more

States across the country are beginning to roll back heart-wrenching policies instituted when the coronavirus pandemic began and allow in-person visits at nursing homes and assisted living centers, offering relief to frustrated families.

For the most part, visitors are required to stay outside and meet relatives in gardens or on patios where ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. - In a gym full of bar bells, stationary bikes and other work-out equipment, Nadar Atari is hunched over a table, pencil in hand, trying to finish a Sudoku puzzle.

The puzzle is part of Atari's rehabilitation after two months at WakeMed being treated for COVID-19, including 15 days in an induced coma with a breathing tube down ...Read more

The South Carolina resort community of Wild Dunes draws you in the same way a beautiful landscape painting at a museum pulls you to it. With each step closer, more and richer color, texture and detail are revealed – the pastels of the vacation homes and condos given contrast by green layers of hedges and the leafy canopies of the hardwoods, ...Read more

DUBLIN, Ohio - Nancy Moore used the spading fork to loosen the dirt and then she pulled a few weeds from among the petunias and the marigolds in the raised flower bed.

She wasn't terribly excited about the task because gardening isn't really her thing - the 90-year-old former dance teacher would much rather be tapping - but this is what her ...Read more

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Robert Johnson, who turned 100 in early July, on a hot and sunny Florida day, barely hesitated when asked what he'd do if given another chance to go to Antarctica, the land of eternal ice and snow that he first journeyed to as a teenager.

"It would be very tempting, it would," he said. "That place stays in ...Read more

"The outlook for retirement is worse than a year ago," Wharton professor Olivia Mitchell said matter-of-factly in an interview recently. "We're now in a different world."

In a Q&A, The Inquirer asked her to elaborate on what the post-COVID world means for America's retirement savers and those who have already retired. ...Read more

For months, Patricia Merryweather-Arges, a health care expert, has fielded questions about the coronavirus pandemic from fellow Rotary Club members in the Midwest.

Recently people have wondered "Is it safe for me to go see my doctor? Should I keep that appointment with my dentist? What about that knee replacement I put on hold: Should I ...Read more

Davetta Brooks, 75, who has heart failure, a fractured hip and macular degeneration, is afraid. Conditions in her low-income senior building on Chicago's Near West Side - the Congressman George W. Collins Apartments - are "deplorable," she said.

Residents are not wearing masks or gloves to guard against the coronavirus, she said: &...Read more

MONROVIA, Calif. - Most mornings, like clockwork, you could find Art Ballard pumping iron.

At least five days a week, he drove to Foothill Gym, where he beat on the punching bag, rode a stationary bike and worked his abs. After he joined the gym five years ago, he dropped 20 pounds, improved his balance and made friends.

At 91, he's still ...Read more