When Gail Acosta began seeing flashes of light out of the corner of her eyes, she thought it signified a neurological condition. It wasn’t until after a friend suggested she get an eye exam that she learned she had retinal ischemia, a condition in which there’s a lack of blood supply to the retina. 

As students head back to school, here comes a big homework assignment: StoryCorps wants tens of thousands of teenagers across America to interview a grandparent or elder this Thanksgiving and upload their recordings to the Library of Congress.

Older adults who have stopped driving are almost two times more likely to suffer from depression and nearly five times as likely to enter a long-term care facility than those who remain behind the wheel, according to a new report released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and Columbia University.  

New Navarre residents Beth McCoy and her husband David adopted a rescue dog in April, they called “Cooper” from the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society (PAWS.) Little did they know at the time – they would be looking for him longer than the dog was a resident in the family’s home.