AGING AND MONEY: HAVING THE TOUGH CONVERSATIONS
October 7, 2015
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Aging Life Care Professionals™ Offer Guidance to Aging Adults and Families on Handling Financial Issues A recent article on financial-planning.com focused on the need for financial advisors to have plans to address the challenges they face when clients have diminishing mental capacity. With the rising aging population and the increasing rates of dementia, financial advisors are being encouraged […]
Read The Rest →Seniors Tell Medical Students What They Need From Doctors
September 25, 2015
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By Susan Jaffe September 25, 2015 Belle Likover, a 95-year-old retired social worker, told Case Western Reserve medical students that growing old gracefully is all about being able to adapt to one’s changing life situation, including health challenges. (Photo by Lynn Ischay for Kaiser Health News) CLEVELAND – When doctors told Robert Madison his wife […]
Read The Rest →ELDER LAW ATTORNEYS AND AGING LIFE CARE PROFESSIONALS: A BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP
August 14, 2015
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Take a Closer Look at the Trusted Advisor Relationship Between Elder Law Attorneys and Aging Life Care Professionals™ by Bunni Dybnis, MA, MFT, CMC – Aging Life Care Association Member and Fellow of the Leadership Academy There are many reasons why the partnering of Elder Law attorneys and Aging Life Care Professionals™ is beneficial to both […]
Read The Rest →Obamacare reduces uninsured rates, improves access to care, study finds
July 29, 2015
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Laura Ungar, USAToday3:33 p.m. EDT July 28, 2015 Since the Affordable Care Act took effect, fewer Americans lack health insurance or have trouble getting the care and medicines they need, a study released Tuesday says. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says the number of Americans who reported being uninsured […]
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A STROKE UNDER OBSERVATION
July 29, 2015
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by Beverly Bernstein Joie, MS, CMC, Aging Life Care Association™ Member One Professional’s Personal Experience with Medicare Observation Status My husband, Dan, came home from work on December 23, 2014 and, as is our fashion, I asked him about his day. When he began talking, It was evident he could not find the words to […]
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO CARE FOR AN AGING PARENT?
June 25, 2015
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by Jullie Gray, MSW, LICSW, CMC, Aging Life Care Association™ Member and Fellow of the Leadership Academy This month, the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP released a landmark study – Caregiving in the U.S. 2015 – that provides new insights into the landscape of our nation’s caregivers and the challenges they face. Are you prepared to […]
Read The Rest →Walgreens, insurers push expansion of virtual doctor visits
June 11, 2015
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BY TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer Millions of people will be able to see a doctor on their smartphones or laptops for everyday ailments once the nation’s largest drugstore chain and two major insurers expand a budding push into virtual health care. Walgreens said Wednesday that it will offer a smartphone application that links doctor and […]
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How Therapy Can Help in the Golden Years
June 10, 2013
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By ABBY ELLIN Michael Kirby Smith for The New York TimesMarvin Tolkin, 86, says his monthly therapy sessions have been “making the transition of living at this age in relation to my family very doable.” Hear from Mr. Tolkin and two more seniors here. Marvin Tolkin was 83 when he decided that the unexamined life […]
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Sequestration and Senior Citizens: How Will Budget Cuts Affect the Elderly?
March 1, 2013
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by ARTHUR COMINGS of NerdWallet on MARCH 1, 2013 What is sequestration? On March 1st our government plans to cut about $85 billion in across-the-board spending for a wide variety of goods and services that many of us consider essential. These mandatory cuts are known as budget sequestration. Even if Congress and the President somehow agree on how […]
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Japanese funeral
February 21, 2013
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I’m in Japan for the funeral of my beloved mother-in-law Minako Sugimura. I was interested to experience how this people process this universal experience. Here are some of my thoughts/observations. 1) Japan is considered not very religious. I think this is wrong. Actually, religious ritual is rather seamlessly woven into the culture. Here the practices […]
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