Once a doctor decides someone is unlikely to live six months or more, they usually shift their treatment plan and focus on treating the symptoms instead of the disease itself. This type of treatment is called hospice care or “comfort care” and it aims to keep the patient as comfortable as possible in the last months, weeks, and days of their life.

All hospice agencies offer the same basic services, but there are still…

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be serious in older adults. In the U.S., nearly 150,000 people are hospitalized with pneumonia each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention read more