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New laws make it easier for people to see their loved ones in health care facilities during the pandemic.

The laws governing traditional Medicare don’t provide for coverage of self-administered diagnostic tests.

This tool measures the health of older cancer patients and can identify who is at highest risk for serious side effects.

Recommendation includes people over 65, those with underlying medical conditions and those with occupational risk.

Calls for equity, inclusion and better access boost pre-pandemic efforts to open up eligibility, streamline trials.

Many older people have biomarkers indicative of a strong response to checkpoint inhibitors.

Older individuals with a history of cancer experienced accelerated age-related functional decline.

A study found that people over 75 who were screened by colonsocopy or sigmoidoscopy had a reduced risk of death from colorectal cancer.

Many residents in long-term care facilities are suffering from depression and loneliness after months without visitors.

Between 2.0 million and 4.4 million older adults are homebound, but they haven’t been recognized as a priority group for vaccines.

A group at the University of Colorado Cancer Center is working to understand why cancer risk increases as people get older.

In most places, elderly people are pitted against one another, competing on an unstable technological playing field for limited shots.

Despite being the only current cure for MDS, transplants generally haven’t been offered to older patients.

Individuals report that their health and well-being is worse because of the social distancing required during the pandemic.

Some are forming small groups that agree on pandemic precautions.

Sudden cognitive dysfunction is a common concern for seniors who’ve survived a serious bout of COVID-19.