Over the years, health insurance has received a bad reputation. From shady sales practices, to loopholes that allow an insurance to not cover as much as you thought that they would, insurance is a huge headache for most people. However, … [Read more...]
Using Medicare for In-Home Care?
Medicare covers very little when it comes to in-home care, but that doesn’t mean it covers nothing. In some instances, Medicare will cover the costs of home health care, but only on limited and temporary basis. For this to happen, each of … [Read more...]
Do You Understand Medicare?
Do you understand Medicare? If you’re like most, the answer is no. Even licensed health insurance agents often don’t understand all of the ins and outs of Medicare, and this can be a very problematic thing for the individuals that need … [Read more...]
Paying for Care When Medicaid Isn’t a Choice
Senior care is expensive. There’s no sugar coating that fact, unfortunately. Even if you decide to leave your fulltime job to provide care for a loved one, you are paying quite a bit to do so, albeit in the form of an opportunity cost. … [Read more...]
Is Long Term Care the Right Choice?
Long term care is a common term that is often used interchangeably with senior care, but these are not the same things. In many instances, the preferred and necessary type of senior care that an elderly individual is given is long term … [Read more...]
Medicare’s Annual Election Period Info and More
Because we are already several days into Medicare’s Annual Election Period, it is worth looking at what Medicare is--and what it’s not. Having the right benefits in your Medicare coverage plan can help offset senior care costs in some … [Read more...]
Seniors Win a Major Battle in Rights for Elderly Folk
One of the major concerns that many individuals have had when it comes to living in a nursing home is the loss of legal standing. However, it was recently ruled that entering a nursing home that accepts Medicare or Medicaid … [Read more...]
Emergency Guidelines Impacting Healthcare Providers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have established new guidelines on how healthcare providers must respond in times of emergency. This impacts nursing homes, hospitals, and assisted living facilities, but it also impacts things … [Read more...]
For-Profit Businesses Can Help Senior Care
About one year ago, select Medicare programs that were once only approachable by non-profit groups began to allow for-profit companies to step in and assist. PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), a part of Medicare and … [Read more...]
Finding Financial Assistance for Senior Care
If you are like many others in our country, the cost of caring for an elderly loved one is a huge burden. In some instances, this burden isn’t a big one at first, but as the months and the years go by, it becomes a crushing one. Not only … [Read more...]
The Cost of Care Can Be Prohibitive
Healthcare is extremely expensive, there’s no way around that fact. Many people are very lucky and have strong insurance policies in place that offset the cost of their care, or even completely cover the costs, but even health insurance has … [Read more...]
California Puts an Emphasis on Prevention
A study coming out of the University of California, Berkeley, has indicated that California county public health programs are seeing some big payoffs when it comes to lowering healthcare costs. Depending on the county, for every $1 … [Read more...]