Though Life Care Planning isn’t yet a household name, more and more people are learning about this innovative service that helps families respond with confidence to the challenges created by aging, long-term illness, and disability.
Though Life Care Planning isn’t yet a household name, more and more people are learning about this innovative service that helps families respond with confidence to the challenges created by aging, long-term illness, and disability.
When it comes to letting veterans know about the benefits they’re entitled to and how to access those benefits, the VA might not win any awards. But those benefits are there for the taking. Many involve payouts that can drastically change the quality of life for elderly veterans.
Music is an important part of life for most people. From the time you are born, through childhood and adolescence, your adult years, and old age, music is along for the ride. Your mother sang lullabies to soothe you as an infant. You remember the band that played at your high school prom. You carefully selected the first song to dance to as a married couple. Music is the soundtrack of our lives.
Could the experience of aging and long-term illness be less traumatic?
It’s a question that Lisa Titus has often pondered. For the last twelve years, Lisa has been working as an elder care coordinator at the Elder Law Practice of Dennison Keller, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Cincinnati, Ohio. She now helps the firm’s many clients answer this question.
In the last 15 years, the number of companies offering services and support to families caring for elderly loved ones has skyrocketed. What sets Life Care Planning apart from the rest?
Are Medicare beneficiaries paying too much for prescription drugs?
It’s entirely possible, according to Susan Pittman, Medicare Coordinator at The Law Practice of Dennison Keller, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to guiding the firm’s many clients, Susan has also spent the last seven years as a certified counselor with Ohio’s Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP), a Medicare-sponsored program that provides free unbiased advice to Medicare beneficiaries.
If an elderly relative is the victim of financial exploitation, is there any recourse? We posed this question to Scott Anderson, an attorney at the Miller Elder Law Firm, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Gainesville, Florida.
Your parents are getting up there in years. They’re still healthy—and they refuse to discuss their plans to pay for long-term care when the time comes. They’re convinced they won’t need it.
The statistics tell a different story. Someone turning 65 today has a 70% chance of needing some type of long-term care in their remaining years. Who will pay for this care? Who will make decisions for the elder when he or she becomes incapacitated?