E-Newsletter: Useful Info During COVID

Posted on April 2, 2020

Following is the text of our recent e-newsletter. If you would like us to add you to our e-newsletter mailing list, please visit our homepage. ———– Dear Friends, This is our second newsletter during these interesting COVID times. The first newsletter offered legal information. This one shares useful info, plus something beautiful. You can revisit our...

E-Newsletter: If You Are Hospitalized During the State of Emergency

Posted on March 30, 2020

Following is the text of our recent e-newsletter. If you would like us to add you to our e-newsletter mailing list, please visit our homepage. ----------- Dear Friends, I hope you are all staying home (unless you are an essential worker). I want to share some important points to keep in mind if you are hospitalized...

Paying Your Caregiver Under the Table

Posted on September 20, 2018

Hiring a caregiver is an expense, no question about it. Some families are lucky enough to be able to find the perfect caregiver among their circle of close family and friends. When finding a caregiver on their own rather than through an agency, lots of families prefer to pay the caregiver under the table...

Elder Care Workshop Series at Norwell Public Library

Posted on March 7, 2017

Getting older? Taking care of someone who is? Come to this three-part series to learn some helpful tips from local Elder Services professionals. Wednesday, March 8: “Who Can Help Me?” Find out how to access elder services in your community. Presented by Susan Curtin, Director at Norwell Council on Aging. “Elder Law 101” Get to know the basics...

Are You Caring for Someone Who Wanders?

Posted on December 22, 2016

CMS (the agency that manages Medicare and Medicaid) recently put out this interesting FAQ piece on wandering. The piece is aimed at managers of day programs and assisted livings, but there are a lot of useful nuggets in here for people who are caring for loved ones still at home who tend...

Open Your Home and Grow Your Family

Posted on December 1, 2016

The South Shore ARC is looking for families who would like to host under the Shared Living program. This is a state program that matches up adults with developmental disabilities with "host families." If you would like to open your home and your heart, please visit the ARC's Shared Living page....

The Globe Made It Sound Like All of Our Seniors are Living Like the 1% and That Ticked Me Off

Posted on June 13, 2016

The Boston Globe Magazine wrote in its 1/31/16 issue of a Massachusetts building boom of senior care communities targeted essentially at the "1%." You can see that article here. I was ticked off at the tone of the article, to say the least. The author talks about the high-end senior living...

Michelle Singletary – She’s Done It Again

Posted on May 7, 2014

I love her columns, I really do. A few weekends ago, she nailed it once again. Read her column here where she tells older parents why they need to talk to their adult children about the care they would like as they age. Keep in mind that the cost figures she cites are...

Caregiver Contracts – Tax Benefits

Posted on April 30, 2014

If you would like to care for your parents full-time, or close to it, and your parents want to pay you for this, then there are some tax issues that you need to be aware of. Most importantly, if you are providing hands-on care, making meals, doing the shopping, taking your parents to doctors’ appointments,...

Veterans: Are You Getting Older, Need Care, and Want to Stay at Home?

Posted on February 27, 2014

Good news! The VA has several programs designed to assist elderly and/or disabled veterans who want to stay at home for as long as possible. Listed below are some of these programs. They each have different eligibility tests regarding income and assets, minimum age, level of disability, service-connected rating, and geography....