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Navigating the World of Managed Care

By Risa Levovsky
  • Eldercare
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Long Term Care

A caregiver might want to consider joining HMO to help him/her provide the best care for the loved one. Suggestions about what to do if you cannot get an appointment at a reasonable date with a physician that works for HMO.

Caregiving For The Brain Injured

By Barbara Potter
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Caregiving for the brain injured ranges from total care (e.g. coma), to people now unable to manage their lives in an acceptable way, to many kinds of physical disabilities, to inability to work, to personalities totally changed.

Life Settlements: A New Estate And Financial Planning Tool

By Christopher Bourke
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

A viatical or life settlement is the sale of an existing life insurance policy by a chronically or terminally ill individual with an accelerated death benefit or a lump sum payment.

Daily Money Management Programs

By Federal Trade Commission
  • Eldercare
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Ideas and services to use Dailey Money Management Programs to help your parents or loved one, especially from afar

Home Care Benefits

By David L. Coffelt
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Long Term Care
  • Residential Options

A home care benefits policy will help many seniors maintain their personal independence at home without being a burden to their loved ones.

Questions & Answers

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

This article provides important answers to pertinent questions caregivers may have. For example, when is it the right time to reach out for help with your caregiving duties?

Statement To Senators-Part l

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Ms. Witrogen’s speech to Sen. Breaux in the Senate

Statement To Senators: Part ll

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Ms. Witrogens speech before the Senate at Sen. Breaux.

Information On Document Lists You Will Need As A Caregiver

By Gail Mitchell
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Forms - Downloadable & Printable
  • Long Term Care
  • Research

Types of Checklists that willl provide researcg that you will need to take action with so that your caregiving role will be easier.

Hospice Care and the Medicare Hospice Benefit

By National Hospice Foundation
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Community Services
  • Death and Dying
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Long Term Care
  • Residential Options

This brochure helps patients and loved ones understand more about hospice care, as well as learn about the eligibility requirements and services covered under the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

Funerals: A Consumer Guide

By Federal Trade Commission
  • Death and Dying
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

When a loved one dies, greiving family members and friends are often confronted with dozens of decisions about the funeral. Here is a consumer guide with all aspects of funeral planning.

Government to Researchers: Follow the Rules — or Else Fines and other measures proposed to protect patients

By Health Scout News
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Research

Researchers who cross the line in ethics or safety regarding patients they’re studying may each find themselves facing a $250,000 fine, if the government has its way.

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