Source: AZ Big Media According to the Home Instead, Inc. survey, aging parents are far more comfortable discussing plans for their own final years (89 percent) than their own adult children are discussing their parents’ plans (68 percent). To help start the conversation around final years planning, the Home Instead® network … Read More…
Source: International Falls Journal Mark Dayton and a bipartisan group of lawmakers who have proposed major changes to the way the state oversees elder care facilities. The proposal follows what’s apparently been years of abuse and neglect only recently revealed in a news report. About 82,000 Minnesotans now live in senior care … Read More…
Source: Wilmington Biz In elder law and special needs planning, attorneys work with clients to determine whether a Supplemental Needs Trust is a recommended planning tool. … Kara Gansmann is an attorney in the Wilmington office of Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP, where her practice encompasses elder law and estate … Read More…
Source: Forbes It’s inevitable. Our parents are getting older, and if you are not thinking about how to care for your elderly parents now, you will at some point (or you already have). Unfortunately for these people who took care of us, there are not a lot of options when it comes to elder care.…
Source: Calgary Herald Over the past few weeks, we have seen impassioned dialogue around elder care and the strategy for seniors’ care projects under development by the Alberta government. The Health Quality Council of Alberta is encouraged that these critical conversations are taking place, and we propose that the … Read more…
Source: Michigan Radio It’s up for Best Documentary (Short Subject). She is from Ann Arbor. Checkoway joined Stateside to discuss how she learned about Edith and Eddie, who at 96 and 95 are America’s oldest interracial newlyweds, how her film comments on America’s system of elder care, and what it feels like to receive an…
Source: The New York Times Even if residents choose not to appeal the discharge, if they feel it was inappropriate, they should file a complaint with the state survey agency to conduct an investigation, said Lindsay Heckler, a lawyer with Center for Elder Law and Justice. Tony Chicotel, staff attorney at California Advocates for Nursing…
Source: MarketWatch In some areas, like the Midwest, only 36% of people felt children were obligated to care for their aging parents. Participants in other regions of the U.S. were much more likely to say they felt an obligation to caring for their parents in their old age. Parents are more likely to lean on…
Source: The Conversation Sharona Hoffman received financial support from Case Western Reserve University for publication of her book “Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow” (Praeger 2015). Partners. Case Western Reserve University provides funding as a founding partner of The … Read more…
Source: Seniorhousingnews.com As the boomers begin to enter senior living communities I think the traditional style of architecture will get stale for them. They went from watching a black and white tube television to streaming videos on giant flat screens. They’ll want to live in a community that’s fresh and contemporary, not a place that ……
Source: Charlotte Magazine Aging parents, accustomed to life on their own, take pride in their independence and don’t want to burden their grown children, who are raising children of their own, often in another place. Lorrie Klemons knows better because of her profession. She’s a registered nurse and patient advocate in Charlotte, … Read More…
Source: Managed Healthcare Executive Medicare Advantage is on a bit of an upswing and is in good standing on both sides of the aisle in Congress, given the growing popularity of these plans for seniors,” says Ash Shehata, Principal at KPMG’s Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice. “This has led corporate finance executives that KPMG and ……