When Does Someone Need Financial Guardianship?
When individuals cannot manage their finances, courts can appoint guardians. Financial guardianship is for those who need help handling money.
Factors to Consider When Planning for Retirement
We all dream of the day when we can retire. Planning can be done no matter what your age, but experts encourage people to start as early as possible. Retirement planning can seem like a daunting endeavor for many people…
In an Age of COVID, Meditation Has Many Benefits
Around the world, COVID-19 continues to be a traumatic event. Previously unthinkable challenges, unwanted changes, and devastating losses of loved ones became all too common. Whether you call it meditation, yoga, prayer, spirituality, contemplative or philosophical thought, meditative practices can…
Being There for a Loved One Who Is in a Nursing Home
The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic have made advocating for your loved one in a nursing home more critical and complex than ever. Both residents and staff in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are disproportionately affected by COVID-19…
Considerations for Long-Term Care Insurance
In order for the elderly and disabled to receive the personal and health support they need, long-term care insurance can be the solution. However, it is important to understand long-term care insurance before the time comes when the benefits are…
The Hidden Costs of Dementia and How It Affects Families
There are direct and indirect costs associated with Alzheimer’s and other related dementia diseases policymakers have to consider. Direct costs, in this instance, are the medical and social/non-medical care costs related to dementia; on average, expenses included $273 per month…
The Elderly Affected by Data Breaches
Data breaches have unfortunately become a common occurrence, with the Capital One data breach, for example, compromising 100 million Americans. But what hasn’t been receiving much major media coverage are the recent breaches affecting seniors. One such breach occurred last…
Memory Care for Alzheimer’s Patients
Many elderly Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurologic disorder marked by a steady decline in cognitive, behavioral, and social skills. Initial symptoms are often mistaken for normal aging and include problems with language, mood swings, disorientation, loss of…
Understaffed Nursing Homes Plague the System
Nursing homes are required by law to employ qualified licensed nursing staff and maintain certain government standards of care. According to McKnight’s.com, fully three-quarters of nursing homes seldom meet the federally registered nurse (RN) staffing level guidelines. In particular, on…
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Caregiving for Seniors
Senior care-taking has entered a new realm with the advent of artificial intelligence. There is a need to provide an ever-increasing aging population with consistent and competent health aides. In the United States, the healthcare industry employs over 4.5 million…