Tamara McKinnon knows that visiting a doctor’s office is a poor facsimile of real life. McKinnon is part of a unique San Jose State University program that injects student nurses into largely low-income areas to provide healthcare advocacy for patients on the fringe of the healthcare system.
A California journalist with a medical death sentence – terminal cancer — recently heralded new improvements in immunotherapy for keeping her alive beyond the one-year life span her doctors had given her. Medical advances, it appears, are often the fastest in cases of acute care.
It’s a solution for two problems at once: children desperately need mentors to guide them, and isolated seniors yearn for more connection and meaning.
Richard Caro is a tightrope walker. A successful entrepreneur with decades of experience in bringing high-tech products to market, he’s most recently turned his attention to aging and product design. On the surface, his Longevity Explorers assess the quality of products and technology. Yet Caro knows his work is about something much deeper.
With Latinos now the largest ethnic population in California, the spotlight on Latino aging is shining ever brighter, and with it exposure to a topic rarely discussed: worsening rates of cognitive decline.
California’s End of Life Option Act takes effect today, allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs for terminally ill patients who must meet strict guidelines and follow lengthy procedures before taking the medicine themselves. The law is the culmination of decades of efforts that peaked when Brittany Maynard moved from California to Oregon, where she availed herself of a similar law just before her 30th birthday in 2014.
Your physician hands you the surprising prescription. It’s not for an antidepressant. It’s not for a statin drug. Instead, it’s something completely different.
Along Los Angeles’ coastline the affluent Palos Verdes peninsula is heavily populated with older adults. Nearly one in four citizens living there is over 65 — almost twice the state average.
Preventive health defined: stop trouble before it happens. It saves time, money and lives. It’s the clarion call for today’s health care system. The intersection of technology and prevention can offer older adults profound opportunities to take control of many illnesses – especially diabetes.
For the first time, the federal office that oversees Medicare has released quality data broken down by ethnic lines, revealing disparities in care by racial group.