Advice
The Biggest Retirement Expenses
Most of the expenses of retirement you already pay for such as utilities, mortgage and travel. You incur the same expenses during retirement as you do in your working years. However, the three big expenses are health care, long-term care and housing may increase your cost of living expenses when you retire. Planning in advance is key to maintaining a a life style you are comfortable with.
How To Identify Early Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease And How to Proceed…
Alzheimer's is a type of dementia that affects memory, behavior and, sometimes, the way people think. There’s no cure for Alzheimer's Disease so to be prepared on what to expect and plan to what’s coming may be is the best solution.
HOW TO BUDGET FOR AGING AT HOME…
Senior Americans determined to stay in their own homes are likely to need help at some point a caregiver help. From household chores and nursing services to personal care. With 10,000 baby boomers a day turning 65 in the next 10 years, the need for home health care will only increase. Here’s some tips on how to budget yourself, so you cab afford the costs of a home care service.
A Newly Unveiled Plan to Invest $400B into Home Base Care! Monumental!!
The Biden Administration recently unveiled an ambitious $2 trillion Infrastructure plan that would include $400 billion directed into home- and community-based services (HCBS).
The Pandemic Effects on Senior Care
The pandemic has brought to light America’s flawed elder care system. Specifically, it has brought much scrutiny to the highly publicized circumstances in which long-term care residents have accounted for 2.1 million deaths. The elderly are only 0.62% of Americas population. Now that 75% of U.S. seniors have been vaccinated there is a much needed sense of relief. We can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, with Covid-19 variants still spreading in other populations there is worry of mutation.
Caregiving for someone with Alzheimer's
If you are caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia, your role in managing daily tasks will increase as the disease progresses. Consider practical tips that can help the person with dementia participate as much as possible and enable you to manage tasks effectively.
GROWING OLD CAN BE LONELY, BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THAT WAY…
Growing old can be lonely, but it does not have to be that way! One thing is true for us all, we all get old. Getting older brings changes that can contribute to less socialization. Read more about how to spend your golden years engaged and enriched.
IN-HOME MEDICAL CARE IS ON THE RISE. IS IT THE SOLUTION FOR YOU?
Moving more long-term medical care to seniors’s homes have been an initiative even before the Covid-19 pandemic. In the past year this trend has accelerated even more. Changes in technology and consumer habits have shifted medical services to in-home care. There is a wide range of in-home care models available. Learn about what in-home care best suits the needs of your loved one or yourself.
Where The Elderly Will Settle In Years Ahead…
Where do we want to live in the years ahead? Older adults are asking this question anew in light of the ongoing toll of the coronavirus pandemic — disrupted lives, social isolation, mounting deaths. Many are changing their minds.
