This looks like a good conference for caregivers to learn, connect, share tips, and talk to other caregivers who "get it." This is a half-day conference in Concord, NH.
Here is the registration link with more details.
Medicare Long-Term Care Payment Structure Changing
Medicare payment structure will be changing. Historically, even though Medicare is supposed to pay for anyone needing skilled care, they've been cutting patients off when they "plateau" - so if therapy is no longer going to help you improve, Medicare stops paying (even though their regulations say otherwise). Now, this class-action law suit out...
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Nurses & Social Workers – CEU Workshop Series Starts This Week
Two-Part Workshop Series: I Want to Go Home! Helping Your Patients Go Home and Stay at Home for as Long as Possible. This Friday 9/14 (Part 1) and next Friday 9/21 (Part 2). Held at Wingate Silver Lake. Doors open at 7:00a, program is 7:30a - 8:45a. Wingate will be serving breakfast. Social...
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Social Security Added 52 Conditions to the SSDI Compassionate Allowances (Fast Track) Program
If you have tried to apply for SSDI, or if you are contemplating applying and have spoken to others about it, then you know it can be a long haul. SSDI does have a fast-track application process for certain illnesses. As of this month, they just added 52 more conditions to that list,...
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Good News on Pooled Trusts
When a single person is entering a nursing home, and if she needs MassHealth to assist her with paying for that, then she needs to bring her assets down to $2,000. Elder law attorneys often recommend setting aside a "cushion" in a pooled trust - since $2,000 amounts to bubkes, really. Having a cushion...
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Is Your Spouse Moving to a Nursing Home? Are You Scared of Using up Your Savings on the Nursing Home Bill?
When one member of a couple needs nursing home care, and if you are asking MassHealth to assist with the monthly bill, then the healthy spouse at home may keep only $113,640 in liquid assets, in addition to her home. For a younger spouse with many years ahead of her, reducing her liquid assets...
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Heard in the Office: “I Don’t Want the Nursing Home to Take My House.”
I hear this a lot. Let’s be clear on the very basics. If you’ve watched friends go to a nursing home and “lose the house,” it’s not the nursing home forcing them to sell. Like all medical providers, nursing homes need to be paid.
Your Medicare and supplemental health insurance policy (ex. MediGap) will pay...
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Heard in the Office: “I Want to Name My Son Executor under My Power of Attorney.”
I hear this a lot. This post is about vocabulary.
A Durable Power of Attorney is the document where you name someone to help you while you are living – you name someone (usually a spouse, child, sibling, or best friend) to help you in case you are unable to manage your finances yourself, for...
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Heard in the Office: “My Mom Named Me ‘Executor’ in Her Will and the Court Sent Me Some Paper about Being ‘Personal Representative.’ I Don’t Get It.”
Huge vocabulary switch, it’s going to take all of us a very long time to get used to. This spring, the legislature cleaned out 200 years of laws concerning how we probate wills and estates and replaced those laws with a brand new set called the “Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code” (MUPC).
One of the many...
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Nantasket Beachcombers Club – Bereavement Support Group
Now here's a refreshing idea - a bereavement support group that meets in a place that so many of us find so... well, there just are not enough adjectives to describe how the ocean and Nantasket Beach make us feel. Comforted, comfortable, relaxed, at ease, in tune with ourselves, home.
The Nantasket Beachcombers Club is...
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