Florida receives $1.5 million federal grant to help seniors, others access Medicare benefits (The Pine Island Eagle)
The Department of Elder Affairs today announced that Florida has received a federal grant of almost $1.5 million to help elders, individuals with disabilities and their caregivers learn about and receive special assistance available through Medicare.

Medicare Part D too complicated for seniors to identify lowest-cost plan (EurekAlert!)
( IQ Solutions, Inc. ) In the face of rising health-care costs, a new study has found that older adults were less likely to identify the plan that minimized their total annual cost and were likely to mistakenly think they had chosen the lowest-cost plan. The study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, is currently available online, and will ...