Many Americans are caring for several people at a time — sometimes both of their aging and ailing parents, children, and even spouses with chronic conditions. How do you do it all without completely burning out?

Long gone are the days of advising you to drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water. Now, it’s known that it’s more important to drink the right amount of water for your specific weight.

Every time you go to the bathroom or sweat, you lose water. If you’re vomiting or have diarrhea – more water loss. All of this contributes to dehydration, which is a serious health risk. Find out how much your body needs.

Who better to tell you how to choose a nursing home than someone who works in a nursing home? This licensed nursing home administrator provides her tips on what you want to nursing home to have, or what’s a clear red flag.

In a mouse study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Veterans Administration, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reversed wrinkles and hair loss resulting from impaired cell function in mouse models.

Care partner implies that the person who is living with the disease and the person providing care are equal and that is as it should be. But this isn’t always the case, so when are you a caregiver, and when are you a care partner?

Many Americans over 55 can’t afford hearing aids to help with age-related hearing loss, finds a national study conducted at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Natural lifespan in humans can be affected by a number of factors, in addition to overall health – gender, marital status, and, according to a new study, religious affiliation. Here’s how spirituality affects longevity.

At the current rate, goals set by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce early deaths from diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 2030 will not be achieved, according to a new report from the WHO Indepen...

Researchers say weekend catch-up sleep may actually help overall wellness.