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The Future of America's Homecare Workers & Quality of Care for our Aging Population
The New York Times recently published an article, Caring for the Caregivers, and while I read the piece I shook my head a few times thinking about the implications of the article and what I know from my perspec... Read entire article »
10 Best Cities for Job-Seeking Retirees
U.S. News & World Report posted 10 Best Cities for Job-Seeking Retirees, an article which discusses not only what kind of jobs are recession-proof, but also the cities in which to find employment for those... Read entire article »
Study: Baby Boomers on Aging, Working, Technology & Financing Long Term Care
As baby boomers age, they’re faced with more options than every previous generation when it comes to almost any issue around aging and retirement. The following data comes from a study of more than 500 ba... Read entire article »
Medicare Launches Brand-new Web Pages Dedicated to Helping Family Caregivers
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) recently launched a new addition to their Web site; the Ask Medicare pages are designed to help family caregivers navigate CMS and also find crucial resources outside ... Read entire article »
Geriatric Care Manager, Kay Paggi, Makes Headlines in The Dallas Morning News
Our very own Expert Columnist, Kay Paggi, was recently interviewed in a Dallas Morning News article discussing the role of geriatric care managers and what they can offer families, especially when they are at t... Read entire article »
Medicare Advantage Plans: Buyers Beware!
On Monday, the New York Times ran a great story about Medicare Advantage Plans. Medicare Advantage Plans are a type of health plan sold by private insurance companies. The plans are associated with Medicare.
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Should We Beware of These Nursing Homes?
An Associated Press article posted today on MSNBC cited an interesting development on the Medicare website—Medicare is “outing” the 54 worst nursing homes in the country, an unprecedented mov... Read entire article »
Top 3 Solutions for Small Businesses Supporting Employees with Aging Parents
Many of today’s middle-aged Americans are caring for aging parents along with holding down fulltime jobs. How this impacts both employees and employers is discussed in a recent Business Weekly report by K... Read entire article »
Is Pfizer Manipulating Your Doctor?
Recent events have many people who take statin drugs wondering if they or even their doctors are being manipulated by large drug companies and health insurance providers. One of the most common statin drugs is ... Read entire article »
What’s the Future of LTCI in California?
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) offers retirement benefits to state, public and classified school employees and their families. Employees and their employers (state agencies f... Read entire article »
Are Geriatric Jailbirds Getting Better Health Care Than Mom?
You know the case. Forty-one years after the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, former preacher and Klan Kleagle Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three twe... Read entire article »
Waking the Dead to Prove Abuse—Is Exhumation Ethical?
Virginia Cole died at Woodstock Residence Nursing Home in Illinois on Sept. 10, 2006. She was 78 years old. Although afflicted with Alzheimer’s, Cole was in good overall health according to Steven Levin, ... Read entire article »
How Will Today’s Gay Adoptions Change the Future for LGBT Seniors?
Could progressive adoption laws have positive outcomes for today’s gay couples when they look for long-term care? Gay adoptions are on the rise, and adult children are usually the first caregivers for the... Read entire article »
Sex in Nursing Homes—The Debate Continues
Do senior care and sex make for strange bedfellows? Well, perhaps not. A few months ago, I attended an Alzheimer’s Association conference where one of the seminars dealt with issues surrounding sexuality ... Read entire article »
Gilbert Guide attends the NCOA/ASA Joint Conference in Chicago (brr...)
I’m en route to the NCOA/ASA (National Council on Aging/American Society on Aging) Joint Conference on Aging in Chicago. I’ve hesitated in joining in on these types of national conferences because m... Read entire article »
Gilbert Guide: Day 2 at the 2007 ASA-NCOA Joint Conference
It’s been a full first day at the 2007 Joint Conference of the American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging conference here in Chicago. This is my first time here and I have to say that I... Read entire article »
National Conference on Aging: My Final Thoughts
What a great trip to Chicago and what a successful conference. My last day there was a full one. Here’s the rundown: 1. Had a great meeting with James Huysman, the executive director and co-founder of The... Read entire article »
Bush's 2008 Budget Proposal to Slash 70 Billion from Medicare
As a rule of thumb, I don’t discuss religion and politics unless I’m in the company of close friends or family—it’s just too easy to cross the line from thought-provoking to offensive, e... Read entire article »
The Green House Project: Not Just a Home—YOUR Home
“I just don’t want to have to eat cat food.” My mother likes to joke about this statement, which my grandmother made many years back, but it’s a valid fear. While the odds of her findin... Read entire article »
Helping Low-Income Seniors: One Geriatric Care Manager's Story
My friend, Erin Koebler, who lives in Pittsburgh, works in a Medicaid waiver program sponsored by Allegheny County’s Department of Aging. Her department is the payor of last resorts for home care and modi... Read entire article »
Silver-Collar Workers at All-Time High
A couple of years ago I found myself peddling books at a local travel bookstore. Among the perks—including all of the globes and atlases one bookshelf and many accommodating friends could handle—wer... Read entire article »
A Caregivers Story
A level of frustration is inherent in Alzheimer’s and dementia—not just for the person who has it, but also for that person’s caregiver(s). Until recently, caregivers were advised to “co... Read entire article »
Lotsa Helping Hands: How the Internet is Changing Caregiving
We all have that relative who in times of crisis has a checklist of what should be done. And although we might mock them, many are happy to know what needs to be done and how they can pitch in. In previous post... Read entire article »
New Jersey Law Provides More Long-term Care Choices
It’s always pleasing to highlight good news! Recently, the New Jersey legislature passed a law that will offer seniors on Medicaid more long-term care options. By 2008, senior citizens living in New Jerse... Read entire article »
Telemedicine and Delaying Hospitalization
When should a skilled nursing facility, a type of long-term care provider, transfer patients to hospitals? The answer seems simple: when it is medically necessary. But in reality, a whole host of other factors ... Read entire article »
The Flu (Shot) and You
The other day I realized that summer was over when I noticed my local drugstore’s windows piled high with holiday merchandise. Yes, it’s that time again. The weather is changing and the days are get... Read entire article »
Professional Caregivers: How to Help Those Who Help Others
Here at Gilbert Guide, we are constantly urging family caregivers to seek respite so that when they are “on-duty” they can provide the best care to their loved one. One of the toughest jobs we can ... Read entire article »
Check Out What’s Happening in Michigan
According to this August 10, 2006 article in the Detroit Free Press, six individuals in Michigan were charged with falsifying their criminal records in employment applications to four separate skilled nursing f... Read entire article »
Do SNF Regulations Really Work?
As Consumer Reports’ recent findings on skilled nursing facilities point out, the worst of the worst nursing homes are still in operation. According to the data, many of the state agencies that oversee sk... Read entire article »
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