Assisted suicide has been legal in Colorado since 2016. In June 2025, a coalition of advocacy groups sued the state over its ...

Assistant Minister for Health and Social Services Deputy Barbara Ward said the waiver could be considered to breach ethics and the law and has put forward an amendment to remove it from the law.

Lawmakers may not have intended for anorexic patients to die under MAID. But to suggest it isn’t happening is hopelessly ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently signed a law legalizing assisted suicide, making Illinois the 12th state in America.

Although 98% of seniors 65 and over have health insurance, close to four million have unpaid medical bills, according to 2023 data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That's because most ...

Housing is provided by assisted living facilities to aging individuals with varying degrees of independence. Some residents can manage their own hygiene while nurses oversee their medications, while ...

Assisted living communities can be a comfortable environment for older adults who need a little bit of help in their daily lives. Our research team vetted 17 national and regional assisted living ...

Assisted living referral agencies have stepped up, marketing themselves as experts who can connect families with 'the best ...

In Austria, a law legalizing assisted suicide passed in 2021 and took effect in 2022. Per the law, "adults who want to end their lives must produce a diagnosis and have confirmation that they are able ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...