Middle-income boomers are making preparations for their death, but just 32 percent have a plan for receiving care in retirement.

A public option supported by an increasing number of Democrats is meeting pushback from hospital groups.

Here are eight mistakes workers and retirees make that could sink their retirement—or make it much less pleasant.

Prices for commercial health care in metropolitan areas are on the rise, but usage of care is falling in the same areas

Guess whose basement Mom and Dad might have to live in when they run out of retirement funds?

Widows have historically suffered from higher poverty rates than have married women, but the rate had declined.

The budget calls for more than $845 billion in reductions for Medicare—practically guaranteed to rile the GOP's senior constituents.

The addition of long-term care coverage to the equation could further split the moderate Democrats from the more progressive.