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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

As individuals and families plan for the future, one crucial consideration is the potential need for long-term care. Long-term care insurance has emerged as a valuable tool to ensure that individuals can access the care they need without depleting their savings.

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Reason for referral: Documentation tips for therapists

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

” Occupational Therapy (OT) “Patient, a long-term care (LTC) resident of the SNF, referred to OT by nursing due to recent decline in activities of daily living (ADLs). Rehabilitation is sought to increase strength and improve transfers/gait for the patient to return home with spouse.” Have a column idea?

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Understanding Private Duty "Non-Medical" Care

Comforcare Home Care

Private duty care is "non-medical" long term care that provides support and different levels of care that older adults face, from the comfort and safety of their own homes (or wherever they reside). Alzheimer's/Dementia long term care. Help with all activities of daily living (ADL's).

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No place like community: Discharge planning beyond the PHE

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Home assessments should move well beyond home type, kitchen set-up, hallway width, bedroom and ADL analysis and shift into our patients’ “real world” in whatever sense neighborhoods and community are important to them. Taking our clinical practice beyond, “Are you safe for home?” to “Are you safe for return to your fully integrated community?”

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

Participants are typically those certified by a state to require nursing level of care (which can be home-based), and need assistance with certain activities of daily life (ADLs). Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black.

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Keeping Alzheimer’s Patients at Home With Memory Care

Comfort Home Care

Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Cost-effective: In most cases, in-home care is more cost-effective than other forms of long-term care.

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Stuck in the Middle: The Sandwich Generation

Boca Home Care Services

Besides an aging care manager, a home health aide can assist in your parent’s home, based on their best schedule, typically four hours a day. There are also ways to pay for this that many do not know about: long-term care insurance, Claims Conference-Holocaust reparations (claimscon.org), the VA, and Medicaid waivers.