It's an ongoing topic of conversation, one that is often quite heated, and, at times confusing. We've written about medicare medicaid services in the past in an effort to educate what medicare & medicaid will, and won't, cover, versus LTC insurance. In the end it is a personal ...
Written last October, this piece in the New York Times is just as relevant then as it will be 100 years from now. It illustrates the ongoing challenge of maintaining our own long term care as well as that of our aging parents. MOST of the nation’s 78 million ...
We have found a great site worth bookmarking, McKnight’s Long Term Care News & Assisted Living. McKnight’s offers multiple, short and informative news reports every day on issues surrounding long term care and assisted living. Some of the most recent reports examine such issues as healthcare ...
Last week we wrote a short piece on how Medicare relates to long term care. You can read it HERE. As we pointed out, these services are quite different from insurance for long term care. This week we're taking a quick look at Medicaid, and ...
Does Medicare cover long term care? What about Medicaid? These are tough questions, with somewhat complicated answers. Instead of one (really) long post, we're going to break this issue into a couple smaller posts. First, let's take a look at Medicare. According to Wikipedia, Medicare is defined as: A social insurance program administered by the
Happy holidays from everyone here at LTC Connects! If ever there is a time to thank each other for what we have, and to think positively about our long term care needs, it's now. For the next couple days think about what you have, instead of what you don't. When 2009 rolls around we will ...