The program has operated in King County since 1995 and has expanded gradually to include facilities in South Seattle, West Seattle, Kent and Redmond.

The Immunized Class: Those Over a Certain Age

Is your aging body sending distress signals? If we neglect our bodies or fail to treat them with proper respect, they have an effective means of expressing their dissatisfaction—we feel pain.

Even during COVID, Providence ElderPlace has grown to serve 976 participants.

Over 120,000 people age 65+ in Washington State, and more than 5.8 million nationally, are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Without effective treatment or cure, the impact of Alzheimer’s will continue to rise. This drives the Alzheimer’s Association’s investments in research to understand the basic biology underlying Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Doug Hirsch, co-CEO of the company, says GoodRx works with nearly every pharmacy in the United States. The question is, how exactly does it work?

Hiking and walking do give me joy: the jaw-dropping vista of Mount Rainier filling the horizon on the Naches Peak Loop Trail, the roar of water cascading down Twin Falls on the Snoqualmie River, the snow-capped peaks at Olympic National Park. All that beauty is part of me now. I am stronger, both physically and mentally, as I stretch the limits of what I can achieve.

In 2014, one of my now retired colleagues, Lyle Sorensen, MD, said to then 57-year-old Seattle resident, Mary Lou Hanske, “You definitely needed a new knee,” when she was in the recovery room following total knee replacement surgery

Providence ElderPlace West Seattle is a stand-alone program housed at Providence Mount St. Vincent assisted living and skilled nursing home. It offers West and South Seattle residents an innovative program that provides medical care and social services to seniors who wish to continue to live in the community, thus avoiding or minimizing stays in hospitals and nursing homes.

These photos by Terry Rogers, M.D., celebrate the beauty of aging.

Providence ElderPlace Redmond offers residents on the Eastside of Lake Washington an innovative program that provides medical care and social services to seniors who wish to continue to live in the community, thus avoiding or minimizing stays in hospitals and nursing homes.

Research suggests that CB2 receptors may play an important role in the body’s ability to mitigate discomfort

Medicare is an important program for you and millions of people. Do you know your Medicare?

Providence ElderPlace has expanded to Redmond, Wash., offering comprehensive health and social services to seniors.

The Social Security Administration announced the launch of a new Health IT initiative with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that enables all Social Security disability case processing sites to receive medical records electronically from all VA facilities.