The following is a guest blog from Anthony Cirillo:  I returned from the National Council on Aging conference somewhat dismayed. While the conference is not necessarily about long-term care, you would have thought that it did not exist at all when listening to the speakers. Most of the topics were about aging in place and care options in the ...

Gay elders face more problems than their straight peers, including stigma, isolation and unequal treatment, according to a report presented Wednesday at the annual conference of the National Council on Aging and the American Society on Aging in Chicago, and later reported on the CNN Web site. A 2001 study by the U.S. ...

I recently read an article about the Senior Medicare Patrol, an organization of 4,700 senior-citizen volunteers who help the government spot Medicare fraud. This program, which has helped taxpayers save more than $100 million since 1997, now has at least one branch in every state and can be found online at http://www.smpresource.org/. SMP ...

The number of felons reported in long-term care facilities in Chicago has increased by three percent from November to December, following reports of violent attacks by residents. Since 2006, state law in Illinois has required that long-term care facilities do background checks on all new residents and immediately notify state health officials ...