When a loved one moves to a nursing home, family members are often shocked to learn that the bill is not paid by Medicare or health insurance. Few families have the money to pay the average nursing home bill themselves. In Connecticut the average nursing home bill is over $204,000 per year. Life savings can be depleted quickly paying these …
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Hospice care: What is it and what’s covered?
Hospice care is a team-oriented approach to medical care, designed to enhance the quality of life as it nears its end. It is designed to aid in pain management and offer emotional and spiritual support through palliative therapy, education and counseling. It is tailored to the needs and wishes of the patient, as well as, the patient’s family and …
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10 Steps to Less Stressful Caretaking
Taking care of an elderly loved one, whether due to dementia or illness, can be exhausting and stressful. Often due to the lack of outside help, a devotion to the person needing care, or the tunnel vision that can accompany exhaustion, caretakers don’t take care of themselves. But they must. Failure to do so can lead to burnout, injury or …
Caregiver Stress vs. Distress and Alzheimer’s
There is no way to successfully run and hide from stress when you are the caregiver for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. Stress is both normal and expected, and should not cause you to be afraid. Distress, on the other hand goes beyond the boundaries of stress and takes you into a state of danger and desperation. If you are in distress you need to …
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Caregiver Burnout – Adult Day Care to the Rescue
If you are a primary caregiver for a loved one, you are well aware of the daily stress and emotional and physical impact it can have on your health. Susan learned this first hand when she and her husband, Tom, brought his mother home to live with them. Tom’s mother suffered from dementia and had to be watched constantly. Susan found that when you …
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