Under Medicare Part A and Part B, certain medical services and supplies are covered if they are provided in hospitals, doctors’ offices or other health care settings. For homebound individuals, those services may include medically necessary part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care and/or physical therapy, speech-language pathology service and/or services for people with a…
Medicare is one of the federal government’s largest programs. So, it isn’t any wonder that the so-called Silver Tsunami (the rise in the number of individuals 60 and over) worries those folks who pay attention to such things as the federal deficit.
Friends of mine, Bob and Margaret, live half the year in Washington state and half the year in Hawaii. It used to be that they only spent the coldest months of the year in Hawaii but as they age the time they spend in Washington becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the year.
The good news is that middle-aged women can change their diets now and live longer lives. The better news is that it doesn’t take a major overhaul to achieve the effect.
In September of this year, the Long Term Care Commission, which was established under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, reported its recommendations to Congress. The Commission was directed to develop a plan to implement and finance a comprehensive, coordinated and high quality system to provide individuals with the required assistance they need…
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If you live “across the pond” as they say you’re likely to be much healthier than your American counterpart.
“If just 10% of adults began walking regularly, Americans could save $5.6 billion in costs related to heart disease.” – President George W. Bush, 2002. Each year 15 million people suffer strokes according to the World Health Organization.
In a Florida case (FI-Evergreen Woods, LLC v. Robinson, 2013 WL 5493462 ), T.C. Robinson admitted his wife, May Robinson to a nursing home after she fractured her hip. During the time she was in the nursing home, May Robinson alleged that she suffered a second fractured hip and other medical complications due to…
A couple years ago, someone convinced an elderly friend of mine to sign over her financial power of attorney to them. This individual also convinced my friend to change her will and to sign over title to her home and car. There was a wild, crazy couple days as I desperately contacted Adult Protective Services…
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