Understaffed nursing homes in disadvantaged communities are more likely to overmedicate residents with antipsychotics.

A noninvasive brain stimulation treatment shows promise for improving depression and anxiety in older adults.

Changes that cause the skin to stiffen and become less elastic may also contribute to higher rates of metastatic melanoma in older people.

A new poll of older adults suggests some who take aspirin daily may be following outdated advice, researchers say.

How much exercise is beneficial for the hearts of women over 60? A new study has an answer. And it's not 10,000 steps per day.

Relying on their initial impressions of trustworthiness, elderly adults overlook bad behavior, according to a new study.

"Loss of our urban green and blue spaces due to rapid urbanization may not just have an environmental impact but could have a public health impact as well."

If widely adopted like annual flu vaccines, RSV vaccines would dramatically reduce the disease's burden of illness and death in the US.

Becoming a caregiver to an aging parent or spouse can be stressful, but a new study questions the idea that it's a risk factor for depression.

More older Americans use cannabis now than before the pandemic, with 12% saying they’ve consumed a THC-containing substance in the past year.