Thirty-one of the country's best nursing homes are in Tennessee, according to U.S. News and World Report, which on Tuesday released its annual list for 2017-18.

Depending on the circumstances, sometimes the best financial backstop in the event of long-term care is the family home.

NORWALK — There are no two ways about it: being a caregiver is taxing.

Retirement presents a unique set of challenges that many of us never think about even as we plan for it. Preparing for retirement is a different ballgame than what we played while working and building up our wealth. This is truer now than ever before as demographics continue to change and, as they do, so do our retirement needs. We're living longer, and the risk of outliving our money is very real for many of us. Add in other factors, like health care costs, taxes, inflation and volatility in the stock market, and retirement poses quite a few challenges.

In Citrus County, the sheriff’s office has initiated two programs intended to keep its citizens safer, especially its seniors.

More than 2.4 million seniors in Florida rely on Medicare, and a good chunk of them could face rising health care premiums next year.

More than 2.4 million seniors in Florida rely on Medicare, and a good chunk of them could face rising health care premiums next year.

Local senior citizens got a crash course Tuesday in the latest fraud schemes targeting those in their golden years.

New research from the University of South Florida suggests evacuating nursing home patients before a storm increases the chance of both hospitalization and death.

NASHVILLE - Family members, friends and clergy reported 32% of the cases of financial exploitation against an elderly person in Tennessee last year according to the Adult Protective Services (APS) division of the Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS)