Moving a parent into a care facility is often a wrenching decision for families. Despite the emotions involved, it’s important to remain clear-eyed when it comes to signing the contract. Otherwise, adult children could find themselves on the hook for much more than they bargained for. via How a parent’s health-care bills could hurt you …
The future of long term care, will be on intentional communities with shared interest and activities. This is how the boomers will age. Take a look at this WSJ story on how Japan is supporting the elders. – WSJ.com.
The Rosenkranz Law Firm has sought to shift Vets from Medicaid to the VA health care system for almost 15 years. In a rare press release on the topic Kaiser Health News reports: “It is commonly accepted that many poor veterans and their families find themselves on Medicaid, even though, in many cases, they would …
The medicaid transition program is one of Florida responses to the US Supreme Court case named Olmstead. The Olmstead case brought ADA rights to those in nursing homes paid for by Medicaid. I find it important to recall the Haddad case from the Jacksonville US District Court. In the Haddad case an adult who was …
By Jack M. Rosenkranz, J.D. How do we imagine the aging experience? What will it be like for us and how will we know what to do when our aging parent requires our help? Howard Gleckman attempts to answer these questions in his new book, Caring for our Parents, published this year (2009) by St. …
This headline ran over a Wall Street Journal article about rationing of health care in Canada. It offers a sad outlook if the US Health Care System follows the Canadian “Too Old for Hip Surgery” model. Preventive care will be the focus of the future. Quality of Life depends on having a supportive and conscientious …
Many elders are concerned about the existing and potential disparities in the American health care system. One’s quality of life depends on having a supportive and conscientious environment within which to age. Recognizing the danger that healthcare disparities represent in the American system, scholars and policymakers have begun to differentiate between the fundamental causes of …