Long-Term Care

Advance Directives Long-Term Care

Do You Have A Plan In Place For An Incapacity “What If”

by |July 22, 2014

If we knew which year the hurricane was going to hit our house, we may decide to buy homeowners insurance only for that particular year and not “waste” our money buying it in other years. However, we don’t know for certain when or even if our homes will be damaged, so we buy homeowners insurance every year “just in case”.

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Long-Term Care

Adult Day Centers Can Be A Safe Solution

by |July 14, 2014

When your parent or spouse starts to lose independence, it can be a stressful and emotional time for everyone involved. Many times mom doesn’t want to acknowledge that staying in her home alone is not a safe situation for her any longer. She is scared that if she admits she needs help then that admission will be the first step to her losing control of her life.

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Long-Term Care

An Assisted Living Community Is Not The Same Thing As A Nursing Home

by |May 12, 2014

The nursing home (skilled nursing) is the provider of the highest level of long-term care. The rooms typically resemble hospital rooms with hospital beds. The nursing home provides a much needed service to patients needing a high level of care, but are not attractive alternatives for relatively independent seniors who just need the safety net of a little additional assistance and supervision.

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Long-Term Care

The Cottage Is Another Option For Aging in Place

by |April 28, 2014

Many times when it becomes apparent that mom or dad can’t safely live along any longer, the first reaction is for the family to consider having mom or dad move in with an adult child. This is a supportive and loving plan but in today’s world, not always a practical plan due to the space and privacy needs of mom or dad and the adult child and his or her family. Too much togetherness can quickly escalate into stress, hurt feelings and family division.

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Long-Term Care

Who Needs Help With the Costs of Long-Term Care?

by |April 24, 2014

Most of the people who come to see me about a long-term care crisis are people who worked hard their whole lives and saved responsibly for their retirement. As long as they remained healthy, their retirement nest egg worked just the way they envisioned. However, as soon as a health crisis requiring long-term care assistance occurred, their nest egg couldn’t absorb the unbelievably high costs of long-term care assistance.

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Long-Term Care

Technology Is Becoming A Crucial Resource For Aging In Place

by |April 14, 2014

As more and more of us express a desire to remain in our homes as we age, technology is responding with a variety of new ways to keep us safe.

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Long-Term Care

Automated Medication Management is a Resource to Help You Continue to Live Independently in Your Home

by |April 7, 2014

As we age, sometimes the number of medications that we have to take on a daily basis increases. Trying to keep track of which medication to take at which time or even remembering if we took all the medications at all can become a little challenging. Medication errors can have dire consequences to our health and could be a contributing factor to a decision that it is not safe to live independently in our homes any longer.

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Long-Term Care

As You Age, Asking For Help Doesn’t Have to Mean the End of Your Independence

by |March 24, 2014

As we get older, we may find ourselves unable to take care of everything the way we used to. It might be harder to pull the trash can back and forth from the curb on trash day. It might be harder to grasp the cooking utensils or to stand up long enough to prepare our favorite meal. We don’t want to mention it, but sometimes it becomes harder to remember if we took our medicine or even how much of each medicine we were supposed to take.

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Long-Term Care Medicaid

The New Florida Medicaid Managed Care Program for Long-Term Care is Coming to Pinellas County

by |October 1, 2013

Florida Medicaid has changed the way it will deliver long-term care services to most of its participants. This is a statewide change that is being introduced around the state region by region. Pinellas County is part of Region 5 which means that any current long-term care Medicaid participants impacted by this change will start to receive letters introducing them to the new managed care program in October. The new program will then become effective on February 1, 2014.

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Estate Planning Long-Term Care

Estate Planning Should Include A Look At Long-Term Care Insurance

by |September 24, 2013

When people come in to talk about their estate plans, they expect to talk about what happens when they die. In fact, that is what motivates many of them think about putting together an estate plan in the first place. They want to make sure that the people they love are taken care of in case they die.

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