A Life of Care Giving – Becoming an Enlightened Caregiver

Now that you're back, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

A straight-talking guide to choosing and paying for a nursing home, assisted living site, or home care. Joseph Matthews presents all the information consumers need to make the best choices for long-term care, such as how to:

• protect assets
• arrange home health care
• find nursing and non-nursing home residences
• rate nursing home insurance policies
• understand Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs

Visit merchant

Finding the right kind of long-term care, in the right place, often requires making difficult decisions in difficult times. Choose the Right Long-Term Care helps you understand the many alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to fit the care you need to the funds you have available.

Learn how to:

*Arrange Home Care

Understand what home care can do, what kind of care is available where you live, and how to arrange for services.

*Find a Non-Nursing Facility Residence

Learn about the many varieties of independent living and assisted living residential care communities, and how to choose one that matches your needs and budget.

*Choose a Nursing Home

If you need a nursing facility, find out what to look for and how to assess the quality of care.

*Get the Most out of Medicare, Medicaid and Other Benefit Programs

Understand the regulations concerning benefit programs, what they cover and how to qualify for them.

*Evaluate Long-Term Care Insurance

Find out whether long-term care insurance is a good investment for you.

*Protect Some of Your Assets

Avoid draining your life savings and losing your home as you cover the costs of long-term care.

The completely updated 4th edition provides all new information about estate planning, plus a new chapter on the special care needs of elders with Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of mental disorientation. With sensitivity and clarity, Attorney Joseph Matthews gives you all the information necessary to help plan for and make the best arrangements for long-term care.

Visit merchant

Resources for People in Medicare

Original post

Glossary of Medicare Terms

Original post

There are special interest groups trying to block progress on health-care reform by using myths and scare tactics. Like the notion that health-care reform would ration your care, hurt Medicare, or be a government takeover. Actually, these are false statements. The following are some of the most common myths being spread about health-care reform and the facts that prove them wrong

Original post