Part I: The Cost of Long-Term Care and How it’s Paid For Long-term care services, whether provided in institutions or in the community, are essential to the well-being of many elderly and non-elderly people with limitations … [Read more...]
Print This PageCritter Corner: Should I Get Long-Term Care Insurance?
June 9, 2016 by
Dear Baxter, My neighbor is an insurance agent who keeps bothering me about long-term care insurance. I try to avoid her, but lately it hasn’t been working. To help me make an educated decision, can you provide some reasons I … [Read more...]
Print This PageHome Health Aides Are Quitting Their Jobs
June 7, 2016 by
The in-home care industry has been anticipated to be the largest job creator between 2012 and 2022, with an estimated 1 million new caregivers required during that time. Now some are questioning whether there will be enough people … [Read more...]
Print This PageSpecial Alert to Existing Clients and Potential Clients
June 3, 2016 by
YOUR LIVING TRUST MAY HAVE OUT OF DATE PROVISIONS AND NEED TO BE REVISED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. A once-popular estate planning tool, called a "Credit Shelter Trust” or – also called a "Bypass Trust" or a "Family Trust” -- may now … [Read more...]
Print This PageVirtual Reality for Seniors: Traveling Through Time and Reducing Pain
June 1, 2016 by
Helen, 83, loved recounting “the good old days” with friends at her assisted living facility. She would talk about her old neighborhood in Roanoke, the neighbors across the street, riding her bicycle with her friends, and swinging … [Read more...]
Print This PageWhen is a Person Too Incapacitated to Sign Legal Documents?
May 26, 2016 by
Q. My father, Roy, has severe arthritis and is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. He is widowed and currently lives in a stand-alone cottage house that my husband and I built for him in our backyard. Sometimes he seems … [Read more...]
Print This PageA Memory Forest Full of Hope and New Life
May 24, 2016 by
When Janis’ father, Barry, had cancer, he tried chemo, radiation, and ayahuasca, a plant native to Peru that is used in traditional healing ceremonies. He is an arborist by trade, and a hippie by nature. Prior to his cancer, he … [Read more...]
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