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As France’s Elders Swelter in the Heat, Postal Workers Come to the Rescue

By: Ségolène Le Stradic —
To help prevent heat-related deaths, the French government has asked postal workers to check in on older people.

Harmony Simon, a postal worker, visiting Martine Combe in Aix-les-Bains in July.

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Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes Released by Sheriff’s Department Searching for New Leads

By: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs —
The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, the television news anchor, has been missing for nearly six months.

A memorial near the driveway to Nancy Guthrie’s residence in February in Tucson, Ariz.

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Payments Are Going Digital, but Many Seniors Still Rely on Cash

By: Paula Span —
“We’re putting another burden on the elderly that we don’t have to,” one researcher said.

Cashless policies disadvantage a number of groups, including low-income people, the homeless, undocumented immigrants and older adults.

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Dialysis May Prolong Life for Older Patients. But Not by Much.

By: Paula Span —
In one recent study, the challenging regimen added 77 days of life after three years. Often, kidney disease can be managed in other ways.

Dialysis can cause side effects like infections, fatigue and itching, and often means hours each week in health care centers, where most older adults don’t want to be.

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Young Americans Can’t Keep Funding Boomers and Beyond

By: C. Eugene Steuerle and Glenn Kramon —
The U.S. government spending is too heavily lavished on its older people at the expense of its young.
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Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits

By: Jordan Rau —
The add-ons pile up: $93 for medications, $50 for cable TV. Prices soar as the industry leaves no service unbilled. The housing option is out of reach for many families.

Anne Palm with her parents, Donald and Florence Reiners, when they both lived at the Waters of Excelsior, an assisted-living facility near Minneapolis.

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