Government senior nutrition programs are being impacted by federal spending bills cutting $213 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, and the outright elimination of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, also known as CSFP, all of which serve seniors in low- to moderate-income households, experts say. Trump has signed budget measures, the health, agriculture, transportation and housing...

Seniors stricken with diabetes must notify their primary care physicians and their assigned medical specialists about their foot problems, federal agency researchers and medical trade associations say.   The National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or NIH-NIDDK, the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, and the American Podiatric Medical Association, or APMA, urge senior diabetics to...