Pets Provide Nurturing and Activity for Elderly

For seniors living alone or dealing with the loss of a loved one, life can get boring, monotonous, and depressing. The benefits of having a pet at home may just be the tonic to keep them involved, engaged, and...

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Elderly and Dental Health

Our teeth are designed to last a lifetime, but seniors have increasing difficulty in keeping teeth and gums healthy. Tooth decay and gum disease can often get in the way. When teeth aren't cleaned properly or often enough,...

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Home Care is Best for Elderly

Home care helps seniors maintain their independence.  Home care allows seniors to continue to live in the place they function best – their home. Actually, the care engagement philosophy at Home Care Partners is to allow the senior to continue...

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Elderly Benefit from Home Care

What is widely viewed as the best and most viable delivery of health care in America?  The answer...approximately 90 percent of infirm and elderly individuals have been found to prefer home care over comparable institutional care.  What are some of the...

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Long Term Care Insurance, part 3

Long Term Health Care (LTC) Insurance is a life-planning strategy to insure coverage for the unexpected. Many savvy (and financially able) people initiate policy coverage in mid-life. This benefit enables them to gain insurance coverage while healthy, and insure...

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How to Pay for Cost of Aging?

The overwhelming question for most seniors is...how to plan for the future? More specifically, the real question is...how to anticipate the cost of the future? My elderly parents had long term care insurance. They were in their 80's when...

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Considering Long Term Care Insurance?

The question everyone thinks about, and asks: how do we pay for elderly aging in place? One of the answers, albeit with some flaws, is a long term care insurance policy. Like any insurance product, the cost for...

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Summer Heat Safety, Elderly Tips, pt. 5

We have just lived through our 3rd summer heat wave this year. It is, now, still the middle of summer. Will we get another round of heat? Here are some additional heat tips for elder consideration: -- Plan your...

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