Forty-seven percent of older Americans still haven’t joined the digital age and of all the people most likely to benefit from the technological age it’s seniors.  From a health perspective, digital access can help make seniors an integral part of their own health care, from being able to access medical records and physicians, becoming actively … Read more

A new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that almost one-third of Medicare senior citizens received care in a skilled nursing facility in the last six months of their lives under the Medicare post-hospitalization benefit despite the fact that that kind of care may not be available.  The authors of the study suggest … Read more

They’re high in fiber, will help you lose weight, increase your good cholesterol, decrease your bad cholesterol and now according to a study published online in the Journal of Functional Foods, eating apples every day can reduce hardening of the arteries.  Robert DiSilvestro, professor of human nutrition at Ohio State University and a researcher at … Read more

Medical notes are required by law but few patients ask to see them and doctors, perhaps fearing an additional time burden and concern about offending or worrying patients, do not make the process of securing the notes easy. However, providing patients with electronic access to their doctors’ notes may have benefits to consumers and doctors … Read more