Welcome to AgingOptions

A holistic elder care company helping families plan for, pay for, and coordinate the long-term care of elderly loved ones.

Our services are geared towards retirees and those thinking about retirement and concerned about:

  • Losing independence & having to move to a nursing home.
  • Losing your assets to uncovered medical or long term care costs.
  • Becoming a burden on your loved ones.

AgingOptions Preferred Partners

Preferred Partner

The AgingOptions Preferred Partner Program is a localized network of professionals in the areas  of health, housing, finance and legal who are dedicated to the AgingOptions philosophy of providing an integrated approach to aging.

As a part of their training, our partners have made a commitment to providing services that recognizes the multi-disciplinary aspect of retirement planning.

Click here for AgingOptions Preferred Partner resources.

What’s New

Veterans benefits can help pay for long term care

The VA offers veterans and survivors two categories of benefit programs. 

Alternatives to a straight long term care policy

 
Are you shopping for a long term care policy?  Buying a standalone long term care policy can be expensive and while you hope you don’t need it, it’s very expensive insurance that clients often see as money wasted when it isn’t used. 

CMS proposes new rules addressing observation status

 
Say you fall down at home and break some bones.  Don’t do it but just say that you do.  Naturally, you go to the hospital, right?  And after a four day stint at the hospital, because no one at home can care for you and your broken pelvis and broken elbow, you head off to the nursing home for a nearly three month stint to recover.  You’d think that Medicare would cover your little excursion but when you get home you find a bill for $19,000 from the nursing home.  This is a real life example that you can read about here.  What’s going on you might ask. 

Caring for the caregiver

 
If you provide caregiving for a loved one, you probably have stress.  It’s nothing to be ashamed of so those of you thinking right now that it doesn’t stress you out to care for Mom or Grandpa or your spouse don’t need to get your backs up.  Ask any parent with a newborn kid.  Do they love the kid?  Absolutely.  Are they getting enough sleep?  Probably not. 

Are the newest Alzheimer’s studies fact or fiction?

 
Remember cold fusion?  A few years ago, a couple scientists claimed that they had created a low energy nuclear reactor.  The news rocked the scientific world on its heels until the experiment couldn’t be replicated elsewhere. 

Why a family meeting should be in your future

Growing older requires a lot of planning but unlike the planning done as a part of a middle aged couple or as a young person pursuing a career, it also relies heavily upon the support of other people, usually family. 

AgingOptions Radio Show 5-18-2013 (1st Hour)

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Be prepared to wait if you are filing for the Aid & Attendance pension

 
Aid & Attendance (A&A) reimburses veterans and their families for the cost of caregivers (including sons and daughters) working in the home to provide care. 

Who needs a financial planner? You do.

 
If you think only the wealthy need financial planners, think again.  Anyone who has spent a sleepless night worrying about whether or not they’ve socked enough away for their child’s college fund, or their own retirement account or how a parent’s sudden downturn in health will affect their own finances knows you don’t have to be rich to need a trusted advisor.