Every year in September the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) sends out it’s annual review of “all things Medicare,” called Medicare & You. This fall some 43 million copies of this annual guide will land in the mailboxes of U.S. households. But according to this recent PBS News Hour report, three leading senior…
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Have you heard the term “the graying of America”? It’s a description of the fact that the median age in the U.S. is rising. As baby boomers – that huge group of babies born between the mid-1940’s and the early 1960’s – get older, so does the country. According to an article in the Fiscal…
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We’ve run quite a few articles on our AgingOptions Blog about the role of caregivers in today’s society. But this recent column from the Huffington Post really grabbed our attention, not so much because in contains new information, but because it’s written squarely at tomorrow’s generation of caregivers: the millennials, those born between the early…
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A small program that began in Little Rock, Arkansas, almost 20 years ago is now providing home-like care to about 1,000 veterans, at a fraction of the cost of nursing care. Besides saving the Department of Veterans Affairs millions in care costs annually, this initiative, called the Medical Foster Home program, provides loving care in…
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So you think you’re ready for retirement? You have your financial plan in place and you’re pretty certain you know what you need to know about Medicare and Social Security? That’s a good start, but it’s nowhere near enough. Because comprehensive preparation for a fruitful retirement is what we’re all about at AgingOptions, we wanted…
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If you were to read the headlines in some of the articles about aging, you would probably conclude that everybody over the age of 65 is on an inevitable slide toward dementia. Alarming reports make it seem as if every retiree is doomed to a gloomy life with their basic mental faculties severely diminished. With…
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When it comes to getting good, unbiased financial advice, do you know where to turn? And are you confident that the fees you’re paying justify the service your financial planner is providing for you? It turns out, based on this recent column we read on MarketWatch, that even savvy investors can find themselves paying exorbitant…
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