Care Community Staff Requires Oversight
How many individuals rush to place their loved one in a care community where staff seem welcoming and excited to have your loved one? After the move-in all of this changes and you’re wondering what happened. This is a common occurrence. No matter what type of community, the care of your loved one requires continual oversight. [...]
Don’t Argue with Medicaid
Filing for Medicaid can be complicated and stressful. There’s a great deal of information required with a high level of detail. It’s important not only to make the best effort to file an accurate application but to respond in a timely manner to any requests for additional information. Understanding that this may likely be a [...]
Adult Day Center May Prevent or Delay Community Placement
When some people hear the word adult day care or adult day centers they think child care. This perception is far from the truth. An adult day center may be just the bridge you need to prevent or delay your loved one from moving to a care community. Imagine having 12 hours to yourself at least [...]
Battling Lack of Insight – Denying the Need for Care
Your mother has memory loss. Everyone else sees it but you don’t want to accept that she can no longer balance a check book or that she should no longer drive. You think the doctors are making a big deal about all of this. Maybe it’s time to consider that the doctors and other acquaintances [...]
Should a Son Provide Personal Care for His Mother?
More and more men are caring for their mothers. Some even living with their mothers. This sometimes results in reverse discrimination with the general public or neighbors believing that these sons are living off their mothers. When does caring for a mother cross the boundary of personal dignity? Is it appropriate for sons to provide [...]
If You Like Your Insurance You Can Keep It
How many of us remember President Obama making this statement? It’s a statement that will likely be proven as false. Corporations, looking at the healthcare reform bill, are realizing it’s less expensive to pay a $2,000 penalty per employee than pay more to provide health insurance for the employee and their family. So, if you [...]
Entitled Friends and Acquaintances
All of us will need help at one time or another as we age and our physical or cognitive health weakens. Many of us have friends who will help. Some have friendships through groups like a church. In a perfect world these helpers will be able to set their self interests aside, meaning that they seek no reward [...]
Is The Environment Killing You?
A report by the President’s Cancer Panel was recently released. Common things that we use and do every day have the potential of causing cancers. Pesticides sprayed on golf courses to keep them green, dry cleaning solvents even re-using plastic bottles can be hazardous. Naturally occurring arsenic or electronic waste filled with lead that seeps into our [...]
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