No One Should Open Presents Alone: Supporting Seniors This Holiday Season
The holidays bring warmth, celebration, and a chance to spend time with family. But for seniors, this season can be bittersweet, especially if they’ve lost a spouse or other loved ones. It’s easy for loneliness to creep in during what’s supposed to be a joyful time. Being there for the older members...
Hiring a Caregiver
Most seniors prefer to stay at home as long as possible rather than move into a nursing home. For many families, this means eventually hiring a caregiver to look after an aging relative. There are two main ways...
Hiring a Caregiver: Should You Employ One Yourself or Go Through an Agency?
Most seniors prefer to stay at home as long as possible rather than move into a nursing home. For many families, this means eventually hiring a caregiver to look after an aging relative. There are two main ways to hire someone: directly or through a home health agency.
Protecting Your House Before and After Moving Into a Nursing Home
Protecting the family home is one of the biggest issues that people worry about when discussing Medicaid eligibility. Let’s look at some of the basics:
While you generally don’t have to sell your home in order to qualify for Medicaid coverage of nursing home care, it is...
Five Benefits of Caregiver Agreements
Long-term caregiving has significant financial consequences for caregivers, particularly for women. Caregivers face the loss of their own income, loss of employer-based benefits, shrinking of savings to pay for caregiving costs and a threat to their retirement income due to fewer contributions to retirement vehicles.
One way...
Making Decisions About End of Life Medical Treatment
While advances in medicine allow people to live longer, questions are often raised about life-sustaining treatment terminally ill patients may or may not want to receive. Those who fail to formally declare these wishes in writing to family members and medical professionals run the risk of having the courts make these...
What Is the Difference Between Estate Planning and Elder Law?
Elder law and estate planning law are terms that are often used interchangeably, with people mistakenly referring to both as the exact same thing. However, while elder law and estate planning law may – and often do – go hand-in-hand, the two areas of law have some noteworthy distinctions. Depending upon...
Long Distance Caregiving What You Need to Know
We all want our elderly loved ones to live near us, but that is not always possible due to where our jobs are located or other circumstances. We often find ourselves many hours or days away from where our parents are living. Our loves ones may also be living in a...
Why Making Funeral and Burial Plans Now Should Be a Priority
Just thinking about your death or the death of a loved one can be enough to tug at your heartstrings. As such, the topic of death is one that most people try to maintain a safe distance from. While thinking about death, and what you want in regards to your funeral...
Green Funeral
A very large percentage of Americans have a funeral followed by an in-ground burial when they die. Approximately 43.5 percent of Americans choose burial as their preferred method for what happens to their body after death.
As more information about environmental effects of burials is unearthed, some Americans...