Problems may crop up if you have special healthcare needs.

Medicare enrollees are moving in greater numbers than ever to the program’s managed care option as a way to save money. But the tradeoff is much less ability to use their preferred doctors and hospitals.

The Alabama Nursing Home Association today announced the top 10 finalists for the 2016 Ms. Alabama Nursing Home Pageant.

Here's how to turn your second act into the start of something big.

Full Retirement Age (FRA), which is the age at which you're entitled to receive 100% of your Social Security monthly retirement benefit, increased from 65 to 66 as a result of the 1983 Amendments. Now, FRA is being phased in to increase to 67 for individuals born in 1960 and later. This is reasonable given the fact that life expectancy has increased, from about 61 in 1935 when the Social Security Act was written and 65 was established as the retirement age, to 79 today.

According to a new study in the journal Age and Ageing, a significant proportion of patients over 70 remain on antihypertensive medication despite having low blood pressure. This, the study argues, has a significant effect on increased mortality rates and admissions to hospital.

A quarter of recipients would take their benefits later if they could do it over.

I seldom write about Social Security without an huge response from readers.

That’s not a bad thing. It seems that just about everyone has an opinion about Social Security – especially when it comes to the decision on when to take it.

When it comes time for you to sign up for Medicare, there's one mistake that can cost you big money.

The federal health care program, which covers 4 million senior and disabled Floridians, provides a specific seven-month enrollment period for Medicare Part A and Part B that is centered around your 65th birthday.

Here's an even bigger reason to start saving for retirement -- immediately.

Many of us by now have been exposed to the dire reality of financing healthcare in retirement. For years, Fidelity has been releasing data on estimated retiree healthcare costs, and according to the most recent assessment, a 65-year-old couple retiring today can expect to spend $245,000 over the course of a 20-year retirement, not including nursing home or long-term care expenditures.

On November 2, 2015 the President signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which dramatically changed Social Security’s future treatment of spousal benefits. I say “future” because the bill included important grandfathering provisions. I know these provisions very well because I may have had a hand in getting them added to the bill.

Not every boss will encourage you to take a day off and go to the beach – or get a massage, or eat a pint of ice cream in front of the television. Even fewer bosses will insist that you take a mental health day. But in the world of hospice care, things are different.