Dear Liz: I’m 80 years old and my wife is 76. Our only retirement income is Social Security, and we have less than $50,000 in savings. We have about $600,000 equity in our house, which we bought in ...

Adjusting the thermostat could make a difference in how well brains work for the elderly. In a yearlong study published in the Journal of Gerontology, researchers at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus ...

BRISTOL, R.I. — At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their ...

As we get older, changes in our everyday routine are inevitable. Hobbies and daily activities that we once could not imagine living without begin to dwindle, and we may soon forget what we even did to ...

Older Georgian homes typically feature ceiling heights of 10-11 feet for ground floor rooms and 9-10 feet for upper rooms, significantly higher than modern standards. People naturally prefer rooms ...

Property taxes across the U.S. have been surging in step with home values over the past five years, exacerbating the ongoing housing affordability crisis and hitting senior homeowners on fixed incomes ...