Unkind Cuts: How Medicaid Cuts Could Hurt Older Adults
April 9, 2025
As an older adult or someone helping an older adult, you’re likely aware of how medical expenses can quickly add up, even if you are covered by traditional Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan. If you’re fortunate, you have savings, or help from Social Security or a retirement plan, or…
Dis-Solution: Long Term Marriages Ending In Divorce
February 7, 2024
The list has been ongoing and in the public eye: Long-time couples, seemingly doing well from a distance, end up in divorce at a time in life when marriage dissolution seems unlikely (As one older divorcée commented, “Sixty was the age of leaving the house and returning for the car…
Eyes Wide Open: How To Approach The Medicare Annual Enrollment Period
October 18, 2023
If you’re an agebuzz reader, then you or a loved one likely has health insurance through Medicare: either the Original Medicare (along with a Medigap Supplemental Policy) or a Medicare Advantage plan, which covers all that Original Medicare does but may also offer additional benefits (along with certain costs and…
Medicare 101: Reviewing Basics To Prepare For The Upcoming Annual Enrollment Period
September 13, 2023
As you likely know, Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance to older Americans. Most people think Medicare is incredibly complicated (and it is), but if you break it down into pieces, it’s easier to understand and plan for your needs. In our desire to help you better…
Never Ending: Long Term Care Costs Continue To Go Up
August 23, 2023
It likely comes as no surprise to agebuzz readers: Paying for the costs of long term care- whether in your home, at an adult day care center, or at an assisted living facility or nursing home- can be enormously expensive, in fact, out of reach for many if not most….
Hope For The Best: New Medications May Slow The Progress of Alzheimer’s- If You Can Access Them
May 17, 2023
For the more than 6 million Americans currently thought to have Alzheimer’s, and their loved ones, the possible benefits of new medications can’t come soon enough. As the most common cause of dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease predominantly afflicts older women (⅔ of Alzheimer’s patients are female) and almost ¾ of those…