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Where to Live After Retirement

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However, you can continue living in your home by hiring professionals for a few modifications. The average cost to modify your home to age in place is $3,000 to $15,000. Changes might include installing smart home systems, making bath and shower upgrades, and widening doors. Assisted Living.

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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

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Understanding Long-Term Care Insurance Long-term care insurance is designed to help individuals cover the costs associated with various forms of extended care, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and in-home care.

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How In-Home Care Can Support Seniors with Alzheimer’s Disease

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Allowing your aging parent to continue living in their own home for as long as possible helps them to maintain routines in a familiar environment. Moving them to assisted living or a nursing home may create more confusion and frustration for them, especially if they do not require that level of care.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. I want to stay in my home as long as possible.”

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

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ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.