Senior Citizens

Retirement Community Fights To Evict 6-Year-Old Girl (VIDEO)

Posted 10.21.2009 | Home


A retirement community in Largo, Florida is fighting to evict six-year-old Kimberly Broffman from the home of her grandparents Jimmy and Judie Stottle...

Sam Stein

Senior Citizens Group Pledges To "Re-Evaluate" Its Scare Mailer

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


A senior issues group that caused an uproar by sending out a mailer jam-packed with misleading scare tactics regarding health care reform now says it ...

Sam Stein

Senior Citizens League Mailer The Holy Grail Of Elderly Scare Tactics

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


A new mailer being sent to senior citizens warns that Democratic-considered health care reform would result in the rationing of care and the creation ...

Social Security Payments: $250 Checks Proposed By Obama For Seniors

washingtonpost.com | Neil Irwin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business


Congressional leaders welcomed President Obama's proposal to make $250 payments to Social Security recipients Thursday, as a government report confirm...

AARP Struggles To Win Over Membership On Health Reform

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics


The Hill reports that health care reform has proven the most divisive issue tackled by influential lobbying group AARP. Nancy LeaMond, who heads the ...

NY Department Of Aging Employs Idle School Buses For Senior Day Trips

New York Times City Room | Sarah Maslin Nir | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York


Gossiping and laughing, they climbed onto the big yellow school bus on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. But the 20 people clambering ab...

Bankrupt Retirees: Older Americans Are Most Likely To Declare Bankruptcy

Newsweek | Linda Stern | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


Older Americans are heading into and through retirement with a boatload of debt. They're carrying everything from mortgages and home-equity loans to b...

Sam Stein

AHIP Million-Dollar Ad Campaign Targets Seniors

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


In a late-effort push to alter or torpedo health care reform, the major lobby for private insurers has made a multi-state, million-dollar ad purchase ...

The Crime of the Century

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver


Gov. Dick Lamm

Never before has one group appropriated as much money that belonged to another group in the history of crime. It was literally and figuratively as easy as taking candy out of the mouths of children.

Social Security Strained By Job Losses, Early Retirements

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits ...

Fort Morgan Athletes Featured By 9 News

Fort Morgan Times. | Fort Morgan Times | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home


Jesse Home of Denver’s 9News TV station came to Fort Morgan on Friday to document all the effort the local prep sports teams have made to help o...

Junk Removers Find Heart-Breaking Wreckage In Foreclosed Homes

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business


As the Huffington Post continues to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we've found additional comp...

Americans Abroad Debate Healthcare Reform

Denise Dennis | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics


Denise Dennis

PARIS -- September 22 -- The heated debate over healthcare reform continued last week in an unlikely place, the cobblestone courtyard of an apartmen...

National Health Care: Making a Trip to Antarctica Possible

Tamar Abrams | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Tamar Abrams

I don't know that TRICARE is the best possible care, but I can point to my parents, who still ride their tandem bike every day and swim every day and are healthy enough to plan a January trip to Antarctica.

Men Dress As Female Nurses To Steal From Seniors

The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Denver


Nursing-home residents in the Denver area are being targeted by a ring of male thieves who pass themselves off as female nurses to gain entrance to se...

Biden To Move To Health Care Frontlines With Major Address

The Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


Fresh off his trip to Iraq, Vice President Biden will wade deep into the health-care debate next week, according to administration sources. Biden is ...

We Who Are About to Die Will Bankrupt You!

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Reese Schonfeld

The President's plan seems to be getting nowhere, and we who already have Medicare can just say "The hell with it." But I think we'd better all give it more thought, and somebody ought to think about a solution rather than shout, "No, no, no."

Obama Healthcare Speech: How To Watch it

New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


In his speech to Congress at 8 p.m. Wednesday, President Obama will press his case for major health care legislation, not just with lawmakers in the a...

Palin Details Death Panels From Facebook

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


Shannyn Moore

This just in from Palin's facebook as part of her educating the public on "Death Panels." Why she keeps signing "governor" is beyond me. She quit...or...

Revised formula counts more Americans in poverty

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision o...

Older Americans Forced To Stay In Jobs Because Of Recession

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Older Americans will make up virtually all of the growth in the U.S. work force in the coming years as a nearly unprecedented numbe...

AARP Seeks More Neutral Image After Shedding Thousands Of Members

USA Today | Mimi Hall | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON -- AARP, which has lost tens of thousands of members over its support for efforts to revamp the health care system, is preparing a post-Lab...

Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics


Jacob M. Appel

While it is a disturbing truth that our nation will someday likely confront the tragedy of an incapacitated Supreme Court justice, it is not at all clear which justice that will be.

The Republican "Do Not Resuscitate" Plan to Let Medicare Die

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Leo W. Gerard

This is philosophical warfare, and for the Republicans, Medicare is an appropriate casualty.

Village Green: It Takes a Village to Age In Place

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green


F. Kaid Benfield

One of the goals of smart growth must be to create neighborhoods that foster "aging in place."