Forbes reports on a new study that shows that most Americans don’t know much about long-term care insurance and are simply ignoring the realities of what long-term care will cost them should they ever need it. View image | gettyimages.com “A newly-released survey shows just how conflicted Americans are about long-term care insurance,” Forbes says…. Read More »
Posts Categorized: Elder Care
A Basic Breakdown of Medicaid for Massachusetts
We talk a lot about elder law, elder care, and Medicaid on this website, and for many of our readers, those terms are part of everyday life. What if you’re a newcomer to the world of Medicaid, though? Or maybe you’re a family member trying to learn a little more so you can help an… Read More »
Seniors’ Advice Needs Are Changing: Less Recreation, More Care
We recently came across an interesting article written specifically for financial advisors. It’s an industry article that encourages those professionals to brace themselves for a major change in their trade. Investment News magazine reports that most of the advisors they talk to are primarily interested in the IRA rollover market these days. Their clients are… Read More »
Applying For Medicaid Can Be Tough
Medicaid is an essential part of healthcare and life planning for America’s elderly, but getting signed up is vastly more complicated than most first-timers anticipate. That’s true whether you’re applying for yourself or for an aging parent. View image | gettyimages.com Of course, those who’ve dealt with government applications in the past are probably unsurprised… Read More »
Twenty-Five Percent of America’s Nursing Homes Harbor MRSA
We turn to nursing homes when our loved ones need more constant or aggressive healthcare. It’s horrifying to think, then, that the nursing home might be the place they contract a potentially life-threatening infection. And yet a startling new study finds that more than a quarter of U.S. nursing homes harbor MRSA. View image |… Read More »
Doctors and Hospitals Sometimes Ignore Advance Directives
Advance directives have been a popular part of estate planning since at least 1990, when Congress passed the Patient Self-Determination Act. Since then, Americans have only grown stronger in their sentiment that they should decide for themselves what kind of treatment they’ll receive in the face of terminal illness. View image | gettyimages.com Advance directives… Read More »
Does Harper Lee Really Want Her Second Novel Published?
At nearly ninety years old, Harper Lee is considered one of the greatest living authors in the world, even though she’s only written one book — until now. View image | gettyimages.com To Kill a Mockingbird, which Lee released in 1960, won widespread acclaim and a Pulitzer price. The book is regarded as not only great… Read More »
Death by Old Age: Doctors Say “Huh?”
How many times have you heard someone say that they’d prefer to simply die of old age? Of all the ways to die, “old age” sounds the most peaceful, and there is a quiet kind of dignity about it. But medically, that diagnosis doesn’t have any real meaning. In a new Business Insider report, doctors… Read More »
Nursing Homes Must Now Work Harder to Get a Good Grade
If Medicare were a classroom, nursing homes would earn an “easy A.” Or that’s how it used to be, at least. But now a brand-new rule is changing all that, and America’s mistreated seniors stand to benefit. View image | gettyimages.com Under the old Medicare rating system, nursing homes were assigned scores of up to… Read More »