In 2023, more than 11 million people age 50 and older received food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The new legislation cuts federal funding for SNAP, previously ...

Evidence shows that Medicaid improves people’s health and is particularly vital for babies, older people in need of long-term ...

The number of residents age 65 years and older in the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area grew by 6.3% last year, making it the ...

GOP lawmakers pass Trump's spending bill, cutting Medicaid and food assistance, posing a threat to Black Americans' health and well-being.

The popular program helps seniors make informed choices when deciding which Medicare plans are right for them.

When William Amos Craven’s children were little, they would visit him at Roslyn’s Mount Olivet Cemetery, where he worked as a ...

In OSA, oxygen desaturation respiratory events during REM sleep occur more often in Black adults, especially Black women, than in White adults.

North Carolina’s increasing racial and ethnic diversity is helping slow the aging of the state’s population, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Asian and Hispanic residents are the ...

NC’s growing Asian and Hispanic populations are younger on average than white and Black residents, who remain most numerous ...

New research led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the depth of social networks that older adults ...

Older U.S. adults are increasingly dying from unintentional falls, according to a new federal report published Wednesday, with white people accounting for the vast majority of the deaths.