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Dan Fox on
April 03, 2012
Palm Springs Veterans and widow(er)s of veterans may be entitled to a non-service connected monthly pension to offset long term health care costs such as Palm Springs home health care, assisted living or nursing homes. As the ABC news report emphasizes, many veterans are unaware of this benefit or a...
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Dan Fox on
April 03, 2012
This really applies to everybody, as we are all aging and eventually will need changes to our Palm Springs home to make life easier and safer. The best plan for making aging-at-home modifications is, do a little at a time. Many areas of your home may need adjustments, but if you focus on a sin...
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Dan Fox on
April 03, 2012
Your confined-to-home (or assisted living or nursing home) parent, just wants to have fun! You are focused on their safety, finances, medical treatment, medications, privacy, nutrition and therapy. You busy yourself with monitoring their progress (or decline) and doing everything in your power to ke...
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Dan Fox on
April 03, 2012
Many Pam Springs seniors and elderly today experience the difficulty of sleep disorders, often called insomnia.
Over thirty percent of seniors experience erratic sleep patterns, apnea (chronic snoring with loss of breath), and waking up too early in the sleep cycle.
Poor sleep patterns...
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Dan Fox on
April 03, 2012
Its a safe bet that some of the enjoyment has gone out of airline travel during the last ten years or so. And that is assuming that you are in good health and physical shape and/or do not fly often.
But as anyone who has escorted or otherwise assisted an elderly parent or anyone else with the needs...
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Rita Ude on
February 14, 2012
During the next 30 years, the number of Americans over the age of 65 and the proportion of those individuals over 85 are expected to double, impacting the economy, employment, healthcare and social services.
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Rita Ude on
January 31, 2012
A new federal program called the Independence at Home Demonstration will test the effectiveness of providing healthcare to thousands of chronically ill Medicare patients in their own homes, allowing them to remain there instead of potentially entering long-term care facilities.
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Dan Fox on
August 07, 2011
The following was originally found on the website CAPS (Children of Aging Parents). I've modified it slightly and added a little more detail. The first thing to consider when evaluating the question of "what are we going to do with Mom/Dad, is...."where will they be most content?" I...
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Angela Roeber on
March 16, 2011
We all hope never to endure having our minds slowly diminished and devoured by dementia, but the odds of that are worse than you might know. In fact, there's about a 40% chance that your brain is programmed to self-destruct while you're in your 80s. Your chances of developing dementia increase steadily every year.
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acarl on
November 10, 2010
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced increased deductibility levels for long-term care insurance policies purchased in 2011. Some long term care insurance help those insured pay for home care services. "Tax advantaged long-term care insurance remains one of the few remai...
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