"Long Term Care Insurance can cover the costs of Assisted Living, Homecare or a Nursing Home; plan for the future"
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January 3rd, 2011
Providing home care for a person with a mental and/or physical disability is always challenging; however, for a person with dementia, especially Alzheimer’s dementia, providing home care is especially difficult because the disability usually worsens over time. As such, the primary caregiver will eventually require a substitute caregiver in order to take care of personal business, to run errands, or simply to take a respite from daily caregiving responsibilities. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: california, caregiver, caregiving strategies, Home Care
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December 21st, 2010
Beatriz Terrazas is a journalist, writer, photographer- and a caregiver for her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease. Beatriz resides in Dallas, Texas, while her sister Angelica and her mother reside in El Paso, Texas. Angelica is the primary caregiver, while Beatriz provides caregiver respite to her sister and also performs administrative tasks such as researching Medicaid coverage and making doctor’s appointments. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimers's care, skilled nursing, Texas
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December 13th, 2010
In the state of New Jersey, individuals who require nursing home care may still have the option of remaining in their homes and receiving home care. The Jersey Assistance for Community Caregivers, or JACC, program, is a state-funded program that prevents or delays individuals who require skilled nursing and other nursing home services from being placed in a nursing facility. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Home Care, Medicaid, New Jersey, Nursing Homes, skilled nursing
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December 6th, 2010
Nursing homes are eschewed by seniors for a variety of reasons, including the surrendering of personal independence, the financial cost, and the perception that nursing homes are “the end of the line.” However, in the state of Pennsylvania, about 400 Philadelphians are taking a novel approach to nursing home care. Living Independently for Elders, or LIFE, has partnered with the St. Agnes Continuing Care Center to provide comprehensive care for older individuals in what many call a “nursing home without walls.”
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Tags: Medicaid, Medicare, nursing home, Pennsylvania, skilled nursing
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November 28th, 2010
Quite often, individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease require skilled nursing and memory care that is outside the capacity of well-meaning family members and friends. The caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients, who are usually their adult children, are also often taking care of their own children. Such caregivers are part of the “sandwich generation,” a segment of the population that is trying to balance the demands of a full-time job with those of a nuclear family, and then trying to balance these demands with those of an aging parent. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Alzheimers's care, assisted living, caregiver, caregiving
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November 20th, 2010
In the state of Texas, long term care can be quite expensive, ranging from $900 to $3,000 per month for care in an assisted living facility, and from $150 to $200 per day for care in a nursing home. How can one cope with such high costs? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: assisted living, long term care, Long Term Care Insurance, skilled nursing
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November 10th, 2010
Up to 70% of individuals over the age of 65 will require long term care and/or skilled nursing at some point in their lives. In the state of Florida, nursing home care can cost up to $77,000 annually. Many states, including Florida, have expanded their long term care partnership programs to offer individuals a means of paying for their long term care needs. As a result, individuals who have a qualifying long term care insurance policy can obtain Medicaid coverage for their long term care needs without having to spend almost all of their assets first. This is important because Medicaid requires that an individual spend down to $2,000 of his/her own assets in order to qualify for state-funded long term care coverage. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: long term care, Long Term Care Insurance, nursing home, skilled nursing
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October 30th, 2010
A recent article in the University of California’s California Agriculture journal, entitled “The Golden State goes gray: What aging will mean for California,” explores the looming issue of undertrained and overburdened in-home caregivers and the growing elderly population. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: california, caregiver, caregiving, eldercare, Home Care
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October 24th, 2010
Skilled nursing is a term often used to describe the level of care provided at various nursing homes and other long term care facilities in the state of Virginia. However, what really qualifies as skilled nursing? What type of staff is required to designate a facility as a skilled nursing facility (SNF)? Finally, what medical conditions are best suited to the care of a skilled nursing staff? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: long term care, Nursing Homes, skilled nursing, Virginia
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October 14th, 2010
Informal caregivers can be friends, neighbors, or relatives who provide assistance and, quite often, long term care to an individual who is either physically and/or mentally incapacitated and needs help with the tasks of daily living. Such caregivers are termed informal because they are not paid for their services. Yet, who are the typical informal caregivers in the state of New York, and what are their concerns? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: caregiver, caregiving, long term care, New York, nursing home
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