Older Parents

10 Sep 2014
Veteran Aid Benfit for Home Care
 Veteran Aid and Attendance Gives Monthly Stipend  The Veteran Aid and Attendance is a benefit paid now for service done years before. The Veteran’s Administration has many types of benefits for Veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Some also include Spousal Benefits. A lot of seniors who served in WWII and Korea are already ...
19 Aug 2014
Speaking With Your Elder Parents About Finances
Finances are a tough topic to address as it is personal. An individual’s view of money may be quite different from your own Boomer point of view. Parents of the WWII generation may find it unseemly to discuss finances with anyone and with their adult children in particular. However, money is what it still takes for food on the table, ...
29 Jul 2014
My Parents have been Paying LTC Premiums for 15 Years…
  Do I Just Call LTC Insurance and Open a Claim? LTC insurance is used to pay for private duty personal home care. As a Geriatric Care Manager for a Senior Services company in South Florida, I meet with many elder folks when they need assistance at home.  Either they sustained an injury- fall or hip fracture, ...
25 Jul 2014
Make the Call to – Support the Family Primary Caregiver
Primary Caregiver to an Ill Spouse or Parent Also Needs Support Whether it is your elderly or senior parent or a local sibling who is the primary caregiver to your parent, they need support from you as well. In the U.S. millions of family members take care of a mother or father who has a progressive degenerative ...
23 Jul 2014
Why Didn’t I Know that About My Parents?
Elder Parents Sharing Important Information with Family Those of us in the Sandwich Generation know that our elder parents can be secretive about personal information – medical and financial in particular. It can become very important though to know some basic names, dates and numbers about your aging mother and older father – especially if ...
23 Jul 2014
Care for Diabetic Feet
Diabetic feet care is important to help mitigate effect of Diabetes on your feet. The stinging pain from nerve endings and the risk of being banged, bumped and bruised can move quickly from no problem to a possible serious problem. Diabetic Feet Safe and Cared for: 1- Check your feet every day– top, soles and between ...
21 Jul 2014
Transition Home Program – Reduces Preventable Re-Admissions
The Ankota Healthcare Delivery Management Blog:  Transition Home Program Differentiates Home Care Company Transition Home Program: One key to successful growth in a home care business is to differentiate.   We share other success factors in our free white paper, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Home Care Agencies.  In this blog, we often share success stories explaining ...
18 Jul 2014
I did Physical Therapy a Couple of Years Ago
Physical Therapy Helps over Long Term Question: My mother is now 86 and I can tell she is not so steady on her feet and is scared she will fall and hurt herself. Can she get more Physical Therapy or is it only after a hospital/rehab stay? Rory, B.  Rockaway Beach Reply: Thank you for your question ...
18 Jul 2014
Being Really Old, Old is Great Because…
Old is More than a Number Every stage of life or ‘age’ has its own properties or challenges. From infancy through old age, decades seem to have certain characteristics which mark them and make them special, for both the challenges and the rewards. Of course life throws us curves and some heartbreak, how well we ...
18 Jul 2014
Considering the Benefits of Home Health Care
 Home Health Care When Assistance is Needed Home Health Care is recommended when you see either in yourself or with a parent that things are a little more difficult than they were it is time to consider some solutions. For some people moving into congregate living becomes a consideration. For most aging seniors though, remaining ...
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