Long Term Care

Late October is not only the time for prime-leaf watching, or family negotiations about who will host Thanksgiving, but it’s also Open Enrollment time for those on Medicare. The Medicare, Medigap and Medicare Advantage plans for 2020, and their scope of coverage and offerings, are now available for you to…

At a minimum, when a loved one is admitted to a nursing home, you would hope that he or she enters a safe, reputable and responsible facility. While there are many good facilities across the country, there also seems to be trouble brewing below the surface, trouble that often evades…

Anyone with caregiving responsibilities knows that it takes tremendous energy and commitment to ensure that loved ones are safe and cared for as best as possible. But most mere mortals have a breaking point- they’ll need to step back, recharge and replenish their caregiving commitment with a little time away…

The data suggest that few of us will escape the problem: It seems that more than ⅓ of us will spend time in a nursing home at some point in our lives, and 4 out of 10 will likely need paid help in order to remain at home in the…

For most of us, as we get older, we’re either in need of caregiving or performing caregiving tasks ourselves- and sometimes both.  As we profiled back in April, AARP recently issued a report that stated there are 20 million caregivers in the US performing complex medical and nursing tasks, tasks…

For some of us, it’s our worst nightmare; somehow forgetting to pay an important bill and then suffering the consequences as a result. For over 200,000 Medicare recipients, their premium bills went unpaid for several months – but not because the recipients forgot to pay. Rather, it seems Medicare messed…