by External Article | Nov 6, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, For Professional Caregivers, Housing |
The category that the Census calls “health care and social assistance” is the largest sector of employment in the country, accounting for about one in seven jobs nationwide. It encompasses hospitals, clinics, labs, long-term care facilities, home care, and social work... 
by External Article | Oct 24, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Generation X |
How would she get help for a boy who is Black and mentally ill and already vulnerable to some of the worst disparities in the U.S. health-care system even before the pandemic made things worse? Who fixes a boy when his family is on government assistance and the... 
by External Article | Apr 25, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finances |
Susan approached her husband, heart thumping, as he sat in their living room. Days earlier, on Valentine’s Day, she had been diagnosed with colon cancer. Now, her world was about to further unravel. Susan mustered up all her courage and told her husband that they... 
by Guest Author | Nov 7, 2018 | Caring for a Parent, Finances, Long Term Caregiving |
Learning about Medicare options is confusing enough when someone turns 65. It can be even more trying for caregivers who have to pick up the pieces where their parents left off. Having helped dozens of caregivers with their parents Medicare over the years, I can... 
by Kaiser Health News | Feb 10, 2018 | Caregiver News |
JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News This KHN special series examines the reach and the role of Medicaid, the federal-state program that began as a medical program for the poor but now provides a wide variety of services for a large swath of America. More Stories... 
by Kaiser Health News | Dec 8, 2017 | Caregiver News |
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Westminster Village North, a nursing home and retirement community in Indianapolis, recently added 25 beds and two kitchens to speed food delivery to residents. It also redesigned patient rooms to ease wheelchair use and added Wi-Fi... 
by Kaiser Health News | Nov 16, 2017 | Caregiver News |
Michelle Andrews If you’re poor, uninsured and fall seriously ill, in most states if you qualify for Medicaid — but weren’t enrolled at the time — the program will pay your medical bills going back three months. It protects hospitals, too, from having to absorb the... 
by Miguel Guerrero | Oct 20, 2017 | Caregiving 101, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finances |
Medicaid is one of the most misunderstood health care programs available to Americans. This is a real shame because many needy people are missing out on accessing their benefits. For caregivers of the elderly and the disabled, Medicaid’s programs can make the... 
by External Article | Jul 21, 2017 | Finances |
At any given moment, there is a large group of citizens who want nothing more than to make absolutely certain that they are impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid sooner rather than later. Someday, you might be one of them. Welcome to the (perfectly legal) world... 
by Kaiser Health News | Jul 15, 2017 | Caregiver News |
By Jordan Rau Aidan Long is a 13-year-old from Montana who has suffered multiple daily seizures since he was 4. The seizures defy medical cure, and some of them continue for weeks, requiring Aidan to be airlifted to children’s hospitals in Denver or Seattle, said his... 
by External Article | Jul 7, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Finances, Finding Meaning, Housing, Sandwich Generation, Working Family Caregivers |
Like many of my friends, I’m at that point in life where things keep happening. Parents are sick. Kids are struggling to become adults. Jobs are lost and sought. Hormones shift and we vacillate between moods. Our outrage against social injustice rises and falls with... 
by Cori Carl | Mar 22, 2017 | After Caregiving, Caregiver Burnout, Caring for a Grandparent, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Relative, Finances, Long Term Caregiving, Planning, Working Family Caregivers |
Things have changed a lot in the US during my grandmother’s lifetime. My grandmother retired before I was born. Usually the people I remember as having been “old” during my childhood turn out to have been slightly older than I am now. Not so with my... 
by Kaiser Health News | Feb 18, 2017 | Caregiver News |
Home health agencies will be required to become more responsive to patients and their caregivers under the first major overhaul of rules governing these organizations in almost 30 years. The federal regulations, published last month, specify the conditions under which... 
by Kaiser Health News | Oct 3, 2016 | Caregiver News |
Racial minorities and lower-income people typically fare far worse when it comes to health outcomes. And figuring out why has long been one of health care’s black boxes. Forthcoming research may help shed light on what’s driving those inequities — and how the system... 
by Nicole Fallon Carney | Feb 20, 2015 | Caregiver News |
I was inspired to focus my senior thesis on caregiving because my grandmother lived with Alzheimer’s Disease for nine years, and my mother was her primary caregiver. She lived with me throughout most of my life, as my mom was a single mother, and my grandmother cared... 
by Miguel Guerrero | Dec 23, 2014 | Caregiving 101, Finances, Outside Resources |
When one discovers that Medicare does not cover non-medical expenses such as home care for seniors and only covers up to a limited amount of time in a nursing home, it is common to see what other financial assistance programs are available. People will often think of... 
by Guest Author | Nov 6, 2014 | Baby Boom Generation, Caregiving 101, Finances, Long Term Caregiving |
In the last ten years, much has happened to change the face of the long-term care industry. Not only did insurers not predict that Americans would be living longer when they began writing long-term care policies in the 1980s, they also failed to project the cost and... 
by Fay Wein | Oct 24, 2014 | Baby Boom Generation, Caregiving 101, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
When a life-long companions health requires for them to be placed in a nursing home, professionally known as a skilled nursing care center, there may be much stress and fear of the unknown associated with the decision for both of you. Sometimes there be anger and... 
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