Tag: COVID-19

Last year, millions of older Americans went into hiding to protect themselves from the ravages of COVID-19. Did the isolation take a psychological toll? How did they respond to infrequent contact with friends and family? Researchers in a recent webinar tried to understand the unique phenomenon of loneliness in a modern pandemic. What we know…

At $140 billion, the nation’s unpaid medical bills are the single largest form of past due debt. One thing driving this is no doubt rising deductibles for health insurance. A third of insured Americans said in a survey that it is difficult to pay the deductibles in their employer health insurance plans and in t…