Elder Care ABC

By Mary Jane Stern October 1 starts the official Medicare marketing season.  There are numerous choices for health and prescription drug plans and it can become overwhelming. November 15 – December 31, 2010 is Medicare Open Enrollment.  And Medicare Advantage members, this is your enrollment period too for 2011. In my local newspaper there was [...]

Welcome to the September 29, 2010 edition of the EldercareABC Blog  Carnival Derrick Grant presents Download the Self-Administered Geocognitive Exam (SAGE) Alzheimer’s Test posted at ElderGuru.com.

by Bob Kohut For many seniors, a community bingo game three times a week does little, if anything, to provide the essential ingredient they need – meaning.  The career is over; the children are raised; the trips have been taken; the books have been read; now what?  What’s next?  What reason do seniors have to [...]

by Bob Kohut I first learned of hospice care when an older neighbor of mine, who was like a father to me, chose to discontinue his agonizing treatment for liver cancer and go home to die.  This was in the late 1980’s and there were still a lot of people who couldn’t understand why he [...]

By Alex Jensen Times are rough and money is tight. When it comes to elder care, this can put a huge financial and emotional stress on families. Many families are trying to come up with unique ways to handle the problem. As we age, our parents age as well. This rather obvious statement leads, however, [...]

By Karen P Williams Many nursing homes around the country have gotten a face lift and not just a physical kind. For several elder care facilities they are ditching the regimented care in which people are housed like a hospital and required to take medication at a certain time in addition to having to wear [...]

by Mary Jane Stern Over the years people enrolled in Medicare Part C or Medicare Advantage usually had the opportunity to change their plans during the Advantage Plan Open Enrollment which is January, February and March. In 2011 all that changes and if you want to change your plan, you must change your Advantage Plan [...]

By Mary Jane Stern Recently through a social networking site, I connected with someone I went to school with.  Unfortunately, she has gone out on disability because of diabetes and is covered under a Medicare Advantage Plan.  She mentioned how she wasn’t too happy with Medicare and one big reason was the Medicare Therapeutic Shoe [...]