Plan Ahead Before Seeking Nursing Home Care: Avoid Unnecessary Debt for You and Your Family
Unfortunately, neither health insurance nor Medicare covers long-term care. Medicaid could become your only option, so do what you can to plan ahead.
Estate Planning for Surviving Spouses
After losing a spouse or longtime partner, it’s difficult to look past your grief. However, it’s crucial to understand the important and timely decisions you must make regarding your finances and personal estate plan.
Why Small Business Owners Need an Estate Plan
Running a small business can keep you busy, but it should not keep you from creating an estate plan. Not having a plan in place can cause problems for your business and your family after you are gone.
While an…
Home Health Services Underutilized by Seniors, Study Shows
Although Medicare funds some home health care services, a recent study has found that Medicare beneficiaries are underutilizing the program’s home health care options.
A Person Who Lives Alone Is at Greater Risk of Developing Dementia
Increasingly, older Americans are aging in place. Nearly all older adults prefer to age in the comfort of their long-time homes and familiar community surroundings. Aging in place often means living alone. Pew Research findings show that older people are…
Identifying Elderly Who Are Being Exploited
People who believe they are making a charitable donation to help less fortunate people are scammed by scammers who take advantage of their good intentions. Auto call lists that easily identify older victims and the ubiquitous online world of emails,…
A Pandemic Can Have a Silver Lining
As a result of the COVID-19 business closures, record unemployment rates have hurt business owners and their workers, many of whom are 50 or older. Though workers of all ages have felt the effects of unemployment or reduced working hours,…
Easing Isolation for Seniors While Maintaining Social Distance
Our ability to socialize has been severely impacted by medically suggested protocols for social distancing and government mandates restricting large gatherings to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. This isolation holds especially true for those seniors who live alone…
Seniors and Their Caregivers Aided by New Tech Apps
The speed by which technology evolves can be intimidating to anyone. For many seniors, these changes can be so daunting that they tend to avoid technology altogether. While seniors have increasingly embraced technology in recent years, data from Pew Research…
Medicare Scams and How to Avoid Them
Insurance companies are frequently subject to being scammed. Scammers frequently target government insurance like Medicare by stealing newly issued medical ID cards and then stealing identities. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud estimates that tens of billions of dollars are lost…