Here's a number that tells you a lot about what's wrong with the American health care system: When older patients get discharged from a hospital, 1 out of 5 of them will go right back within a month.

As Maryland prepares to transition to a federal health care model next year, some are raising alarms that a unique system that has given the state control over Medicare rates for decades could come to ...

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) — the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging — has chosen Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the University of ...