After 25 years without changes in basic rules, the nursing home industry is finally being forced to reveal hidden wrongs that happen to residents. Until now, consumers were required to sign arbitration agreements when they were admitted to a nursing…
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Three Tips For Talking To Aging Parents About Costs Of Future Care
Three Tips For Talking To Aging Parents About Costs Of Future Care by Carolyn Rosenblatt, RN, Elder Law Attorney Can you imagine your aging parents losing their independence? It might be the conversation they don’t want to have with you.…
Is Your Aging Parent Safe From Family Predators?
This really happened. If you had this 91 year old client, what would you do? Emma liked to play the sweepstakes. But her memory was starting to decline. A lot. When it came to her bank account, she forgot…
Are You Worried That You May Have To Be Financially Responsible For Your Aging Parents?
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Are You Worried That You May Have To Be Financially Responsible For Your Aging Parents? If you don’t know what to expect as your parents grow older and you’ve never thought about what can go wrong, you…
Three Ways Families With Aging Parents Can Stay Out of Court
Do you get along with everyone in your family? Lots of people don’t. Old conflicts can rise up when aging parents start to decline in health and need help. When there is conflict in families, it can sometimes escalate to…
Boomers: Will You Need Care In Your Own Future?
Hello again, from Carolyn and Mikol at AgingParents.com! Wishing all of you a beautiful season. Here’s a subject that many of us are involved in right now. Millions of us Boomers are caring for an aging parent. Some take…
What You Don’t Know About Medicare Open Enrollment Can Cost You
Mikol and I wish you well from AgingParents.com. As you’re probably seeing ads on TV or getting solicitations in the mail about Medicare plans, here are a few things you should know if you, your aging parents or a family member…
Busting The Myth That You Should Let Impaired Aging Parents Make All Their Own Decisions
I am compelled to share these stories with you, sad as they may be. I hope you can learn from the way others handled what was supposed to be doing the right thing. Or so they thought. Are you…
Legal Limits of Care in Assisted Living Facilities
When aging parents come to the point when assisted living seems like the best choice, it is usually their baby boomer children who see it first. Perhaps the adult children live in another state. Perhaps they are unable to visit…
The Saga Continues: Should You Support Your Low Income Aging Loved One?
As many of your may know, my brother had a massive stroke and was hospitalized for weeks. He went to a rehab facility (aka nursing home) where he got physical therapy, speech and occupational therapy. When it came time for…
Can A Dysfunctional Family Come Together To Support A Low Income Loved One?
We’ve just come back from solving a very stressful family situation that got worked out. We’d like to share the experience with you. After my 63 year old brother, already disabled, had a massive stroke, I wondered. How could he…
Smart Ways To Talk To Aging Parents About Finances
A recent survey by the National Endowment for Financial Education found that seven in 10 adults say they have difficulty talking to their families about who will make financial decisions on behalf of an aging family member who becomes unable…
Hidden Truths About Long Term Care Insurance
Should you or shouldn’t you? Seems as if someone is always promoting the purchase of long term care insurance. Most of us don’t want to think about getting old and needing anything like that. If we ever think about it,…
We Always Think We Have More Time, Aging Parents Health
Even if your loved one is in poor health, you still never think of it. No one plans for a sudden passing. I’ve just had a shocking awakening. Our friend, colleague and I were emailing each other about a recent video product…
There’s No Law Against Making Stupid Decisions
Howard, 92, loves women. He has dementia and is legally blind. He likes to give women checks when they tell him their sob stories about needing money. He has one daughter, Missy, who is aghast at his conduct. After her mother…
Were You Shocked By the Nurse Who Refused to Give CPR to a Senior and the Senior Died?
As a nurse and attorney, I can tell you I was so uncomfortable reading about the nurse who refused to give CPR to the dying resident in the seniors’ community where she worked. I got a sick feeling in my…
Son Hit With Mom’s $93,000 Nursing Home Bill
Learn how a son in Pennsylvania was ordered by a court to pay his mother’s $93,000 nursing home bill. After his mom was injured and went to the hospital, she spend some time in a nursing home. She then was…
How to Handle Money for Aging Loved Ones
How to Handle Money for Aging Loved Ones ..downloadable E-Book $9.95 How to Handle Money for Aging Loved Ones $9.99 Volume 6 of this series gives any person responsible for handling money for an aging loved one solid tips on…
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- You’re Never Too Old To Party March 29, 2018By Carolyn Rosenblatt, RN, Elder law attorney, AgingParents.com My mother in law, Alice, 95, was looking forward to getting fixed up and going to the birthday party for her friend of many years. He just turned 100. She had help…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- Aging Parents With Alzheimer’s Disease: Reducing Your Own Risk March 29, 2018Fear of getting Alzheimer’s disease or dementia has overtaken fear of developing cancer among our aging population. There are numerous treatments for cancer, some offering true hope of mitigating the diseases. The same is not true for Alzheimer’s. There is still too…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- Should You Hire A Care Manager for Your Aging Parents? March 23, 2018By Carolyn Rosenblatt, RN, Elder Law Attorney Many of us are probably unfamiliar with the concept of care managers. That may be because geriatric care management is not a clear-cut, licensed profession like nursing or social work. Further, they now…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- Stubborn Aging Parents Who Want To Age In Place: What You Need To Consider March 20, 2018By Carolyn Rosenblatt, RN, Elder law attorney, consultant When asked, about 90% of elders will say that they don’t want to go to any kind of “home” as they get older. They want to stay in their own homes. Aging…Read more ›Mikol Davis
