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Topic: Elderly Care

U.S. President Joe Biden (not seen) and Vice President Kamala Harris attend event on Medicare drug price negotiations in Prince George's County in Maryland, United States on August 15, 2024. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Will Harris' home health care plan work?

Nicole Karlis
In this photo taken May 19, 2015, Judith Chase Gilbert, of Arlington, Va., is loaded into a PET scanner by Nuclear Medicine Technologist J.R. Aguilar at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Gilbert shows no signs of memory problems but volunteered for a new kind of scan as part of a study peeking into healthy brains to check for clues about Alzheimer's disease. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Two encouraging Alzheimer's studies

Steven DeKosky, Todd Golde - The Conversation
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care for the elderly needs support

Alan Stevens, Carole White, Marcia G. Ory, Sandhya Sanghi - The Conversation
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Why Medicaid matters

Sharona Hoffman - The Conversation
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Insisting on compassion

Patricia MacCorquodale - Truthout
End of life care at home is a better, more cost-effective option (<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-206023p1.html “>CandyBox Images</a> via <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/">Shutterstock</a>)

End of life care at home

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Our destructive fear of aging

Jimmie Holland, Mindy Greenstein

A.C. Thompson - ProPublica
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My family won't leave!

Cary Tennis

Lauran Neergaard, Jennifer Agiesta
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