Saving the Family Home from a MERP Claim By Craig Watson, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine Carol’s mother had been in declining health. After an illness, hospitalization and three months in a rehabilitation center, she was […]
You Can Plan to Avoid a Crisis By Craig Watson, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine Estate planning starts with a goal. What are your goals? Is your goal to preserve assets for the security of you and/or […]
Medicare. The impact of the Affordable Care Act has already been positive for millions of Americans on Medicare. Part of the act requires coverage for a slew of preventive annual care, including free physicals, pap smears, colonoscopies, prostate cancer screenings, flu shots and more from physicians who accept Medicare patients. […]
Mercy-CR, UI Health Care Form Accountable Care Organization
Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine
In July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Mercy Medical Center and UI Health Care’s application to form a Medicare Accountable Care Organization was approved. The new ACO, formally named Mercy-CR/UI Health Accountable Care Organization, began operation July 1, 2012. […]
Veterans and Veteran Spouses Can Be Approved for Financial Aid for Assisted Living!
Courtesy Rambling Oaks Courtyard, Collin County & Denton County LIVING WELL Magazines
The Veterans’ Administration offers a Special Pension with Aid and Attendance (A&A) benefit that is largely unknown. […]
Providing a “HOME” for our Seniors
It’s More than Just the Nursing Care
By Dana Olson, Executive Director of Laurel Manor Care Center, Colorado Springs LIVING WELL Magazine
Laurel Manor Care Center is owned and operated by Volunteers of America, a faith based, non-profit organization. […]
Hospice: A Benefit Covered by Medicare and Medicaid
By Robert Smith, VNA, Collin LIVING WELL Magazine
Often patients and their families are reluctant to discuss the option of hospice care with the physician when confronted with the diagnosis of a terminal illness. Don’t be hesitant to do so. Sometimes physicians and clinicians fail to suggest hospice until the patient is near death and the benefits are lost to the patient and loved ones. Your discussion with your physician about hospice should include your right to choose the agency you prefer. Remember, hospice is a service covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and some private insurance companies. […]
Medicaid Will Take My House and Other Misconceptions for Spouses
By Paul Mitchell, CELA, East Denver LIVING WELL Magazine
Many of my clients are wives of the recipients of Medicaid. They have heard from their friends and social workers that Medicaid will take their house from them, that they must live on their own income without the support of their husbands and that they face bankruptcy because of the cost of their husbands’ care. […]
Congratulations, you made it!
Boomers Reach Retirement
Courtesy Resource Bank, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
Everyone has heard of the Baby Boomers. But do you know who they really are? The U.S. Census Bureau defines this group as those born between 1946 and 1964. […]
Hospice means quality of life
Courtesy The Denver Hospice
Florence Gruchey gazes out the window of the log cabin her family homesteaded in the Colorado mountains. Birds scurry to the birdfeeder as the sun pours into the room. Florence is a hospice patient living life to its fullest. […]
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