A Florida senior care provider is asking a federal court to take another look at a case accusing it of willful misconduct during the pandemic, arguing that such claims are not meant for state judges to decide.

An Arkansas nursing home cannot enforce an arbitration agreement, a state circuit court has ruled, leaving the provider open to a possible lawsuit from a resident who alleges medical malpractice and neglect.

Life expectancy in the United States varies by more than 20 years based on a person’s location or race, a new study shows.

The AARP, Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative) and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington announced the formation of the Dementia Risk Reduction Project, an initiative to study how factors like air pollution, depression, diabetes, hearing loss and hypertension are linked to dementia.

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