Elder Care ABC

I wonder how Mom and Bill will take the news that the buyer of the house has backed out of the deal. All along I have felt that everything going perfectly up until this point was unreal. Now I know why. Life is not clean and simple. Things always happen – for better or for [...]

As of Tuesday evening, April 20th, I was unable to access the Blog Carnival’s website where all the wonderful blog carnival posts are submitted.  Our regularly scheduled blog will return next week and any posts shared this week will be added to that edition. For your reading pleasure this week, here is a bit of [...]

Here comes the fun part – gathering my sisters and Mom for an apartment-shopping excursion.  Since we choose mid-week to accomplish this goal, I take a day-off work because that’s the only time everyone else is available. I had promised myself early on that I will be selective regarding the number of days I do [...]

Caring for an aging parent or loved one is a very challenging task. It requires a lot of time, patience and understanding. Most of the time, caregivers become very busy taking care of others that they tend to forget to take care of themselves. This can result in to stress, anxiety, frustration and exhaustion, which [...]

Our population is aging, and as we continue to age, we face complex and difficult legal issues to deal with. Convoluted laws and regulations with both Medicaid and the Veterans Administration do not make navigating your senior years any easier. In response to these challenges a new area of law is developing, that is, Elder [...]

I subscribe to a number of daily newsletters. One from this morning dealt with an issue many boomers are facing today. When is it time to take the car keys away from your elderly parent? The writer of the article described his father as having dementia and being very difficult to deal with. The older [...]

By by Mary Jane Stern Just the other day I started writing a blog about AdvantraRx our Medicare Part D provider for 2009 and 2010.  This year, 2010, they reclassified a drug my husband takes as a Step Therapy (ST) drug and would not honor his prescription unless he took another medication or paid for [...]

by Joy Loverde Selling a house among other financial transactions can get quite complicated in a later-life marriage, especially when adult children from both marriages are also in the mix. Nineteen years ago when Mom married Bill, she sold the family home and used all of her proceeds to buy half of the Florida house [...]