The Ultimate Retirement and Eldercare Solution for All Ages
Before choosing financial planning strategies for different times in your life, consider the "Steps of Life" above. Even though the lithograph was created in the early 1900's, not much has changed today. We start life as a baby on the lowest step of a long staircase....
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Keeping My New Year’s Resolution
What a delightful moment! Keeping my New Year's resolution to visit Mom more often and bring Ari, Shab's 8-year-old daughter. With her dementia, Mom doesn't say much, except to Ari who somehow always revitalizes Mom's mind and spirit. Helping elders maintain mental...
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A Caregiver Son’s New Year’s Resolutions for His Mom
I will visit mom, who has dementia, more often. I will bring Ari, my girlfriend’s daughter, with me. Nobody engages my mom in activities like Ari and her 8-year old empathy. I will not lose my patience when mom repeats herself or doesn’t answer a question. In fact, I...
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Long-term Care Insurers Boost Rates
Care Concierge NY’s goal is to provide quality homecare while saving you and your parents time and money. We are your destination for multiple services from direct hire home aides (at $14 - $20 an hour versus the agency rate of $25 - $30) to home assessments to...
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15 Most Expensive States for Long-Term Care: 2017
Genworth’s annual study on the cost of care nationwide, which includes home care, assisted living facilities, etc., is not reassuring The price of long-term care insurance is high—for everyone involved. Not just the patient but also the caregivers pay in more than...
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Alzheimer’s May Be Preventable in a Decade
Roughly 5 ¹/₂ million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, a disease that ravages sufferers’ memories and, ultimately, stops their bodies from performing basic functions. There’s no cure, and not much that patients and their caregivers can do to stop the progression...
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How to Deal with Caregiver Stress
If you’re a caregiver, you may be feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Maybe in the beginning you thought the illness or the injury was going to be short-term, that they were going to get better. Now weeks have turned into months. You look into the future and see both...
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Retirement Alert: 52% of Americans Turning 65 Will Require Eldercare
How to Reduce Costs & Preserve Assets While Hiring Home Aides Directly Via Care Concierge NY Versus an Agency An Educational Case Study for You, Your Spouse & Your Parents By Aaron D. Schindler CFP, Cofounder, Care Concierge NY www.careconciergeny.com Oct. 12,...
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Signs Your Aging Parent Needs Help
Watching your parents age tears at your heart. He taught you how to drive, now you’re looking at that unexplained dent in his car wondering if you’ll have to take his keys. She held your hand to steady while you learned how to roller skate. Now you hold her hand up...
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Research: Marijuana Could Help Prevent Memory Loss In Elderly
As surprising as it sounds, recent research suggests that marijuana could help reverse brain aging in senior citizens, especially those inflicted with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers found that low doses of THC, one of the compounds found in marijuana, administered...
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