Let’s Stop Wasting Medicare Dollars

I think it’s clear to all of us that if you’re under 55 you won’t have your father’s Medicare when you turn 65. Medicare is growing at such an astronomical […]

Perhaps because the Internet, social media, and technology in general has given me access and opportunities I never could have hoped for, I’m kind of a fan. Nonetheless, occasionally I do come […]

A report released recently by the Census Bureau, “The Older Population in the United States: 2010 to 2050,” finds that by 2050, at least 20% of the senior population will be […]

[Editor’s Note: The following was published by The World Bank] Report advises Latin American countries to prepare for a ‘greying revolution’; rapid aging no longer a rich country phenomenon. Region’s […]

By Marlen Castañeda, Pharmacy Technician in McKinney, Texas I am a certified, registered pharmacy technician. A pharmacy tech works alongside a pharmacist and assists in typing and filling prescriptions. We can […]

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Japan, causing a 13-foot tsunami that has thus far killed hundreds of people. The quake is the largest in recorded Japanese history. A […]

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control show that 3.1 million Latinos in the U.S. suffer from arthritis, prompting them to limit themselves in 1/5 of these cases. The […]

Because of the Latino value of familialismo, The New York Times says that Latinos — and Latinas in particular — bear a greater burden of caring for their elderly relatives […]

Everyone in the U.S., practically, knows someone who has diabetes now, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control. One out of three adults in the U.S. have pre-diabetes […]

A recent report examined the rate at which nursing homes closed during the past decade and found that Latino and African-American neighborhoods were about twice as likely to see such […]