May 23, 2016

4 Frequently Not Asked Questions For In-Home Caregivers If your loved one needs care from an in-home caregiver, you may have some research and interviewing ahead of you (or you can ask us to help you, of course). Undoubtedly, you will have some great questions to help determine who or what agency is the right

Read More

May 19, 2016

What does it really mean to be inpatient?In a hospital setting, you may have heard someone being treated as in “observation status” rather than having been admitted. There is no immediate difference in their care at the time, but it has a big impact on their ultimate out-of-pocket costs!What’s the difference?The difference between observation status

Read More

May 16, 2016

4 Tips For Taking Vacation With Elders We all need time to recharge and take time off from our everyday stresses. If you are a caregiver, you may be in dire need of a vacation! Reducing stress keeps us healthier and able to be better caregivers. For those who care for family members, the concept

Read More

May 9, 2016

Preventing the Elder Orphan CrisisWhen you hear the term ‘orphan’, you immediately imagine a child without parents. However, I see all too often the isolation that is either the result of a smaller family as one ages, or the intentional isolation of someone who has a cognitive disorder and isolates themselves from their community. In

Read More

April 27, 2016

4 Ways Caregivers Can Help Elders Avoid ScamsMost people, seniors included, consider themselves savvy enough to avoid being tricked by scam artists. But millions of people around the world are defrauded each year, and the financial impact runs well into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The impact is not just the loss of

Read More