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The authors discuss the need to update medicare policy for hearing and vision care for older adults in the U.S. Topics discussed include Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Gus Bilirakis' introduction of a bill for a 5-year demonstration project to provide usable and medically necessary low-vision devices to Medicare beneficiaries and the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's workshop on the hearing loss effect in healthy aging.

The article investigates the association of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the risk of fracture. Depression and osteoporotic fractures are common ailments among elderly patients. SSRIs are frequently used in the treatment of depression in this population. This study was undertaken to examine the effect of daily SSRI use on the risk of incident clinical fragility fracture.

A response by Alexandra Papaioannou, Jonathan D. Adachi, Lawrence Joseph, et al., to a letter to the editor about their article concerning the relationship between Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) use and risk of fragility fracture is presented.