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Getting Your Affairs In Order
(General/Blog)
... relative or friend you trust, ask a lawyer to help. Give consent in advance for your doctor or lawyer to talk with your caregiver as needed. There may be questions about your care, a bill, or a health ...
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Medical Bankruptcy: Will it Still Be Necessary Under Health Reform?
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... versus other debts. Other statistics are more alarming and have more empirical evidence: 48% of collection agencies business is the collecting of medical bills, largely from persons with health insurance. ...
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Geriatric Assessment
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... threats to the patient's well being. Finally, we take a close look at legal and financial issues concerning the patient, such as health care proxies, power of attorneys, who is responsible for financial ...
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Slow Medicine, a New Philosophy on Medical Practice for Elders
(General/Blog)
... is also another reason to have Living Will and Health Care Proxies up to date, and to have a good, long conversation with your loved ones about what you want to have happen if you find yourself in this ...
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Medical Tourism: A Primer
(General/Blog)
As more of us face the costs of higher out of pocket expenses for our health care, with rising deductibles, co-pays, and now medical savings accounts, more Americans are going abroad for medical and dental ...
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When Is It Time to Consider Moving a Family Member with Memory Impairment?
(General/Blog)
... health services or private assisted living facilities because of the high monthly costs. Thus, for more than the majority of Americans, nursing homes are the only choice. Nursing homes are the only setting ...
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Courses Offered
(General/Resources)
... Your Client’s Health Care Risks Join Chris Cooper, CFP® for this full day workshop as he walks you through how to advise clients on aspects of long-term care planning and need to know the ins and outs ...
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Retiring and Living Outside the USA
(General/Blog)
... unfortunately, you cannot use Medicare to cover health care. You can use private American issued health insurance. If you give up your residency in the USA, and then later return, you will need to re-establish ...
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Helping Older Relatives Articulate Their Long-Term Care Wishes
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In the best of all situations, helping an older relative or a parent plan for long-term care and other end-of-life issues happens when they’re healthy and various options can be considered with adequate ...
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In The News
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Starting a New Practice? Don’t Forget About the Tax Type National Underwriter Life & Health (July 12, 2010) Staying Healthy May Cost You In Retirement FoxBusiness.com (May 13, 2010) Financial Behavior ...
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Employer Support for Care Giving Employees
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... caring for adults reported negative health consequences, including depression, stress, panic attacks, headaches, loss of energy and sleep, weight loss, and physical pain. Businesses suffer, too, by having ...
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Retiree Benefits under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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... and incentives for individuals and $192 billion in direct aid to states, unemployed and for the adoption of health care information technology. Through a combination of tax cuts, direct investments ...
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Chris Cooper, CFP®, Launches New Comprehensive Financial Planning Web Site
(General/Blog)
... began his career in nursing homes and hospitals as a paramedic and nurse. A personal interest in learning how people could finance health care, led him later in his career to pursue his Chartered Life ...
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Peter Jennings Reporting - Breakdown: America’s Health Insurance Crisis
(General/Blog)
Today in the United States there are an estimated 46 million people—that is almost one in six Americans—who don’t have health insurance. The numbers continue to grow as health insurance costs rise and ...
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Dangers of a Reverse Mortgage
(General/Blog)
Advocates for the Elderly (A for E) is an organization that was formed to protect old people from fraud and to help assure that people in their 80’s and 90’s are not ripped off by health schemes and other ...
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Why Buy Long Term Care Insurance?
(General/Blog)
... with minimal funds in the future. Insurance solves this problem and allows the healthy spouse to keep the assets. 3. Many healthy caregiving spouses won't spend their money and choose to "tough it out" ...
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Using a Professional Care Manager
(General/Blog)
... symptoms than in changing lifestyles. In contrast to this attitude, the geriatric Physician feels that Mary's husband has a chance of improving his health with proper treatment. Susan also works closely ...
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ElderCare Web Links
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Medicare Rights Center (MRC) - www.medicarerights.org A national consumer service organization dedicated to ensuring that older adults and people with disabilities get good, affordable health care. MRC’s ...
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Why do I need a Geriatric Care Manager?
(General/ElderCare Advocates FAQ)
The American Health Care System can offer more than any other in the world, if you know how to make it work for you. Unfortunately, most people are unaware of what benefits they should be receiving, or ...
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How do you work with my mother's doctor and other professionals?
(General/ElderCare Advocates FAQ)
As the coordinators of care, private care managers work closely with every professional and para-professional involved with your elder's health and well-being. We arrange and attend doctor appointments ...