With all of the changing laws regarding healthcare and Medicare, it can be difficult knowing what is actually going on regarding your own coverage. When you are trying to help a loved one find senior care, knowing how to navigate someone … [Read more...]
Money is a Factor When Selecting an In-Home Care Service
A senior care service of any sort needs to remain profitable in order to remain in business, but profitability should always be a secondary concern for those that are looking after the people that you love. When you’re looking for a care … [Read more...]
Senior Care is Expensive. Here’s Some Help.
Senior care is expensive. If you’re helping to pay for a parent’s care, you have probably already figured this out. Care is costly, and even when you have safeguards in place to help offset that cost, you are still going to have expenses … [Read more...]
Paying for Care When it’s Needed
One of the bigger issues that many seniors face is that their savings accounts are not helping them in the latter years of their lives. Even when Social Security benefits are taken into account, paying for senior care and other necessities … [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...]
Paying for Care Doesn’t Have to Hurt
Like most other things in our society, the cost of senior care is going up. Inflation plays a role in this, of course, but it’s not the only factor that drives costs up. Over the last year, the median cost of a year-long stay in a nursing … [Read more...]