If you’re looking for assisted living and you know that you can’t afford to make a poor decision when the stakes are so high. This is often a very stressful time for all family members and too often, just finding a place to start is tough. Selecting a senior living community can be made easier […]
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ACA Compliance Is the letter received from The Healthcare Marketplace important? It seems complicated and unnecessary that ACA would ask for income verification when the IRS should already have that information. So, many people ignore this letter. How will that work out for them? Last month, this article coordinated with two radio programs on “Healthy
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Higher insurance deductibles! Higher co-insurance!! More out-of-pocket expense!!! What can a person do to control their out-of-pocket expense? To be clear, first, a person is best served by having a good medical or Medicare health plan. In addition, some people purchase supplemental policies to pay “extra benefits” to help cover deductibles and non-covered expenses for
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Plan Ahead for Aging By Mary Casterline, Senior Community Advisor, Living By Your Design, Inc. Holidays are a wonderful time to enjoy the company of family and to also look back on the year and reflect. What do you notice? Are older family members having less interest or greater difficulty in taking care of their
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By Mary Casterline, Senior Community Advisor, Living By Your Design, Inc. Who is at risk for falling? Do you think it couldn’t happen to you or your loved one? Think again. Every year one out of three older Americans over 65 falls. You may think falling is inevitable for all of us at one time
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Patient Advocacy Are you a member of the sandwich generation with an active family of your own in addition to parents who need increasing levels of support and care? Has your spouse or one of your parents been recently diagnosed with a chronic illness, like dementia, heart disease, diabetes, or COPD (a lung disorder) and
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What is the Definition of Palliative Care? By Mary Casterline, Senior Community Advisor, Living By Your Design, Inc. The phone rings and your heart speeds up at the news: your mom has just been diagnosed with a chronic and painful disease. You know that there are many decisions to be made and that your mom
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How to Provide Caregiver Support We are headed into the spring; flowers, the changes as plants wake up, and the warmth of the spring sun. Even with the spring, we are also a year older and in some cases, a little less “springy” as we were last year. So, as we think of the “change
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Considerations for Senior Living Apartments If you’re looking for assisted living and you know that you can’t afford to make a poor decision when the stakes are so high. This is often a very stressful time for all family members and too often, just finding a place to start is tough. Selecting a senior living
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Tips For Taking Care of Elderly Parents So, you woke up a bit early today and now you are trying to figure out how to get your mom to her 3:30 pm doctor’s appointment and see your son’s school baseball game at 4:00. Life today is hectic, especially for women aged 45-60 who care for
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