Ronnie Cohen
OAKLAND, Calif. — With a Starbucks coffee cup in her hand and a half gallon of milk under her arm, Florence Owens let herself into Carol Crooks’ apartment on a Monday morning, ...
A prime example of elderspeak: Cindy Smith was visiting her father in his assisted living apartment in Roseville, California. An aide who was trying to induce him to do something — ...
Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people.
They’re not really dead, of course. In four ...
David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group
The Social Security Administration is backing off a plan it announced in March to withhold 100% of many beneficiaries’ monthly payments to ...
Our culture doesn’t exactly make aging “fun.” Getting older is stigmatized, and if you can’t stop it with diets, face lifts, or chemical peels, well, you might as well just accept it. Got a few ...