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Ask Rusty - Ex-spouse benefits - When you don't get
Ask Rusty - WEP - Substantial Earnings Test
Ask Rusty - Child Benefits Stopped at 18
Ask Rusty - Can I Re-marry, or not?
Ask Rusty - Raiding the Social Security Trust Fund
Aging Eyes: 3 Ways Seniors Can Protect Their Vision
Ask Rusty - Divorced Multiple Times
Growing old on the streets is not easy
Ask Rusty - High earners and the Family Maximum
The Risk of Aging
Why Do Some Old People Get Cranky?
Ask Rusty - SSDI and the Ticket to Work Program
Good news: A 2018 increase for Social Security beneficiaries
Ask Rusty - Maximizing Widow's Benefits
Ask Rusty - Estimated vs Actual Benefits
Homelessness among senior citizens is a form of "elder abuse"
There's a Deficit of Knowledge About Social Security
Ask Rusty - Should my wife wait until age 66 to claim benefits?
It's Older Americans Month
Heat Waves Can Kill Seniors who Don't Take Precautions
It's Medicare Open Enrollment Season. Here's What You Need to Know
Elder Abuse is a Growing Concern
Could You Be Missing Out On Senior Discounts? Here Are A Few Things To Know
A Silly Story: The Benefits of Childis Antics for Seniors
End The Tax on Aging
Nursing Homes Set Goal To Get 75% Of Staff Vaccinated By June 30
Malls Converted to Senior Housing
5 Tips to Protect Seniors from Financial Scams Right Now
Taking a Nap Has Health Benefits for Seniors
Do You Need Social Security?
Forgetful? It's Most Likely the Rigors of Growing Old
Will Senior Housing Evolve Into intergenrational Housing?
Beware the Plastic Clamshell
Feeling Down In The Dumps? Take Stock of the Optimism In You. You'll Live Longer
Social Security Expands Compassionate Allowances Program for People with Severe Disabilities
More and More Seniors are Using Online Dating as a Way to Offset the Loneliness of the Pandemic
The Secret of Healthy Aging is Not as Big a Secret as You Might Think
The Sandwich Generation: Caring For Their Elders and Youngsters At The Same Time
Have Compassion for Lonely Elders — There are a Lot of Them Out There and They Need Your Help
Long Term Care Crisis Impacts Elders Who Need Special Care
The Holiday Season Brings Out the Elder Fraud Scammer
The Graying of America
The Holiday Season is Not so "Jolly" for Elders Living Alone; Don't Let Them Fall Into Depression
Aging Has Got Easier for America's Seniors but COVID May Reinforce Ageist Notions
You Can Have a Porterhouse Steak As Long As It's Rare — A Rare Treat to be Enjoyed On Occasion
Inflammaging: Aging is Mostly About Inflammatory Health Issues—Enogh to Make Againg, Itself, a Disease
Could It Be that "Senior Moments" are the Result of Too Much Knowledge Rattling Around in Your Brain?
Now Is the Time for a Little Emotional Wellness and Self-Compassion
Senior Use of Smart Phones, Computers and iPads is On the Rise
Attention Seniors! Medicare Isn't Free
Study Shows Washington State is Where Older Citizens are "Living Better Lives"
Biden Inflation Hits Homeless Elders Hard
More Seniors are Using Computers and the Internet than Ever Before
Do You Need an Organized Exercise Regimen or Do Your Daily Chores Provide the Workout You Need?
15 Million-Plus Senior Citizens Suffer from 'Food Insecurity,' the Potentially Deadly Side-Effect of Spiraling Inflation
Retirees are Going Back to Work — Some to Supplement Income, Others to Feel Productive
4 Tips to Confidently Care for Gray Hair
How Technology Can Help You Age in Place
A Majority of Seniors are Homebodies at Heart
7 Tips for Finding a Medicare Plan That Works for You
Pay Into Social Security Now for Later
Organizations Join Forces to Protect Senior Voters
Shining Light on Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes
Annual Wellness Exam is Key to a Healthy Year for Older Adults
It's Not About Growing Old; It's About How You Grow Old
Aging Workers are In Demand; They are Reliable, Mature and Professional
What Older Adults Should Know After a Doctor’s Visit
For Homecare Equipment Providers, Every Dollar Counts
It’s Time to Care About Long-Term Care
"Vulnerable adults, most often seniors" are targets for scammers, says guardian Rick Black
Romance Scams on the Rise and Elderly are Particularly Vulnerable
Why Everyone Over 50 Should be Training for the Senior Games
How To Find Affordable Senior Housing
Review of the Changing Protein Requirements for Seniors
Exercise Walking For Seniors: Preventing Foot Problems
Arizona Assisted Living Homes -- The Alternative to High Priced Senior Care
10 Tips to Keep a Family Caregiver from Losing Their Mind
When Assistance with Long Term Care Becomes Necessary
Caregiving Across The Miles-Tips for Successful Long Distance Caregiving
Scaling Down (Almost) Painlessly
If Using The Stairs Has Become A Daily Struggle, A Stair lift Could Change Your Life
Assisted Living: Tips on How to Choose a Facility
Stair Lift Buying Guide
Stair Lifts - Straight and Curved Rails
5 Myths You Should Know Before Choosing Elder Care
Solitary Confinement -- for Life
Prevent or Delay Alzheimers Disease
Short Trips Can Stimulate Alzheimers Patients
Scaling Down (almost) Painlessly
Nursing Home Staffing Levels: How Much Is Enough?
Respiratory Help Is Available For Seniors With COPD
When the Box is Empty
Angels Are Reaching Out to the Elderly
New Hope for Alzheimers Treatment
Hinged Rail Stair Lifts
Whos Gonna Take Care of You When Youre Old?
Baby Boomers: Will They Be Able to Afford Their Parents?
Senior Living: 5 Ways to Help Reduce the Risk of Falling
What Colour was Your Great-grandmothers Hair?
Skilled Nursing Homes - What Are They?
Arizona Assisted Living: Resident Rights
Arizona Senior Housing: Care Options for Seniors Who Can No Longer Live Alone
Advocate For Senior Citizens - Protecting Against Abuse and Fraud
What About Tennesse Dept. of Human Services Abuse of the Elderly and Their Families?
Marketing, Selling, and Serving the Older Adult, Senior Citizens, Family Caregivers
Stairlifts - Take the Struggle Out of Climbing the Stairs
Helping Caregivers Get Comfortable Asking For Help
Caring for Aging Relatives
Long Term-Care; 70 Million Americans Will Be Over 65 by 2003
Honey, Where Are The Car Keys?
Long Term In-home Care Options
Paying For Elder Care Just Got Easier
Local Businesses Serving Seniors Prove Commitment to Quality Care
The Right Wheelchair Accessories Will Ease Your Life and Your Journeys on Wheels
As the Baby Boomers Age
The Best Investment You Can Make Right Now: Long Term Care Insurance
The Golden Years
Retiring Abroad and Leaving the Grey Skies of the UK
Using The Proper Wheelchair Will Make Your Everyday Life Easier
Second Hand Stair Lifts
Feeling Lonely?
Mom Wont Participate!
The Dryer Ate Your Underwear!
Just Give Them a Lot of Love and You'll be Fine
What You Need to Know About Helping Senior Citizens
Who Wants to End Up in a Nursing Home? NO ONE!
Assisted Living Facilities - What Are They?
Board and Care Homes - What Are They?
What Most Long Term Care Professionals Don't Know
Strategies on Paying for Nursing Home Care and Medicaid
The Truth About Christmas
Compare Nursing Homes
Senior Care for Alzheimer's
Prepare to Make Long-term Care Choices
Introducing the Best Available Long Term Care Policy Guarantee
Alzheimers Care Giving While Maintaining Your Own Health

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Stairlifts - Take the Struggle Out of Climbing the Stairs
Buying a stairlift can have huge benefits for your quality of life, giving you back some freedom and independence. Stairlifts can be adapted to your individual needs, so no matter what your requirements are, there'll be one to suit you.
Strategies on Paying for Nursing Home Care and Medicaid
The decision to place your loved one into a nursing home is anextremely difficult decision, often causing much guilt for thecaregiver. It is a very emotional decision for most clients we see andmost are under a certain amount of stress, often great, when facing whatthey consider to be a drastic course of action.
Ask Rusty - Maximizing Widow's Benefits
Dear Rusty: I am 64 years old, born in October of 1952, and in rapidly declining health. I took my Social Security early, as soon as I was 62, and now get $1838 per month in Social Security benefits (before Medicare premiums are taken out).
Stair Lift Buying Guide
There is no doubt that having a stair lift in your home can dramatically improve your quality of life. If you are starting to find that climbing the stairs is becoming a hazardous experience, or just hard work, then a stair lift could be the answer.
Alzheimers Care Giving While Maintaining Your Own Health
Just for a moment I want you to imagine that you are coming out of a very deep sleep. If you have ever had surgery try to remember the way you felt as you were trying to make sense of things as you awoke.
A Silly Story: The Benefits of Childis Antics for Seniors
Want to remain young at heart as you get on in years? According to the experts, there's a "silly" way that could help you grow old gracefully, with a smile on your face.
Short Trips Can Stimulate Alzheimers Patients
Severe degradation of short-term memory means that my father, an Alzheimer's elder, is seldom interested in movies or books. And, although music used to be a source of enjoyment, he no longer listens with pleasure.
Skilled Nursing Homes - What Are They?
A skilled nursing home is a medical facility providing services similar to a hospital. The homes are staffed with licensed nurses, shared rooms, hospital beds, regular scheduled doctor rounds, meals and housekeeping.
The Best Investment You Can Make Right Now: Long Term Care Insurance
Don't think you need it? Consider this: a full 50% of Americans over the age of 50 will need long term care at some point in their lives. The average cost of nursing facility care (or home health care assistance) is $61,000 per year, and the average stay in a long term care facility is 2½ years.
Nursing Home Staffing Levels: How Much Is Enough?
During the week of February 17, 2002, headlines screamed the news - more than 92% of US nursing homes fail to have an adequate number of staff to provide quality care for elderly residents. Newspapers and radio programs based their stories on the new study the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) recently provided to the Senate's Special Committee on Aging.
Respiratory Help Is Available For Seniors With COPD
As HMOs Continue to Drop Coverage for Seniors - Now Over 500,000 Victims - Those Needing Expensive Respiratory Medication, Support and Homecare Services are the Hardest HitOne Patient Advocate, Geriatric Services of America, is Providing Relief to Victimized Patients Through a Unique, Often No-Cost ProgramMore than 536,000 US senior citizens are scrambling to find new doctors or new coverage because their health plans terminated their Medicare managed-care services, according to a Nonrenewal Report issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the year 2002. Among the hardest hit are seniors in California (84,000), Florida (59,000), Pennsylvania (55,000), New Jersey (53,000), Texas (46,000), and Michigan (31,000), who will be losing coverage in the coming year.
Paying For Elder Care Just Got Easier
It's not a surprise that thousands of families across the nation are facing the challlenges of an aging population. The "sandwich" generation, those who are caring for their children as well as their parents, have been feeling the financial pinch of caring for loved ones.
Scaling Down (Almost) Painlessly
Moving to a smaller house or apartment in a retirement community almost always involves a certain degree of trauma, both for the elder who's moving and for family members. However, by planning ahead you can reduce the discomfort involved and turn what might well become a nightmare into a pleasant event.
Arizona Senior Housing: Care Options for Seniors Who Can No Longer Live Alone
The following are a few of the care options available for seniors who can no longer live on their own and require assistance with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL), or require skilled nursing care. Every state is a little different in terms of availability and cost, state regulations, and the specific names used for each care option:Assisted Living Home- A facility consisting of 10 or fewer residents in a private home setting located in residential neighborhoods.
The Golden Years
1) What does Adrian Mitchell say we do to people when their working lives are over?Adrian says that "when a man's too ill to work we punish him", rob him of half his income or replace it with "pocket money" and or place him in a retirement home to sit out the remainder of his live in isolation.2) What does he think about this?Adrian thinks that "the old people are being robbed" and says "to hell with retiring" he believes that the way that deal with old people (to have your ability to sport yourself removed and then being given "pocket money").
Caregiving Across The Miles-Tips for Successful Long Distance Caregiving
Caring for a parent or a loved one is a difficult job. Your duties as a caregiver become increasingly difficult as the miles increase between you and your loved one.
Long Term In-home Care Options
Are you worried that you may lose all your life's earnings and nest egg due to the rising costs of in-home long term care? As you get older do you have the necessary finances to protect yourself from going broke while slightly incapacitated? Many seniors are worried about are worried about the costs of long-term health care.Are you worried that if something happens to you, that you may run out of money and burn thru their reserves and all your nest egg.
Just Give Them a Lot of Love and You'll be Fine
It was right about this time, 19 years ago. My wife and I were sitting in the very last Lamaze birthing class, soon to be brand new parents.
What Most Long Term Care Professionals Don't Know
Medicare recognizes this need and, therefore reimburses your residents to receive advanced behavioral health services? making them free to your facility!Psychologists provide a wide variety of valuable and testedclinical services that can provide a big shot in the arm to yournursing home care. For example:1.
Ask Rusty - Can I Re-marry, or not?
Dear Rusty: After a pretty difficult 32 years of marriage and ugly divorce a few years ago, I finally found the man of my dreams.
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Stair Lift Buying Guide
There is no doubt that having a stair lift in your home can dramatically improve your quality of life. If you are starting to find that climbing the stairs is becoming a hazardous experience, or just hard work, then a stair lift could be the answer.
Malls Converted to Senior Housing
Online shopping has been a big winner as a result of the COVID crisis, spiking by triple digit percentages on a year-to-year basis, says the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. But it's had a harmful effect on physical shopping destinations and across the country malls are taking a beating.
Whos Gonna Take Care of You When Youre Old?
I finally went to the doctor this morning for my bad cold. My appointment was for 9:30 am and yet I didn't get home until after 1:00 pm.
Helping Caregivers Get Comfortable Asking For Help
Becoming a care giver might not have been a conscious decision on your part. It may have arrived quietly and unnoticed because you are the adult child of your elderly parents who now require care or you may have a special needs child that exacts your constant attention or a friend or spouse has become very ill and needs your support.
Paying For Elder Care Just Got Easier
It's not a surprise that thousands of families across the nation are facing the challlenges of an aging population. The "sandwich" generation, those who are caring for their children as well as their parents, have been feeling the financial pinch of caring for loved ones.
10 Tips to Keep a Family Caregiver from Losing Their Mind
Caring full time for a loved one can be a challenging task, and it takes a special person to get the job done right. Patience and compassion are the two top qualities a caregiver must possess in order to be successful.
Arizona Senior Housing: Care Options for Seniors Who Can No Longer Live Alone
The following are a few of the care options available for seniors who can no longer live on their own and require assistance with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL), or require skilled nursing care. Every state is a little different in terms of availability and cost, state regulations, and the specific names used for each care option:Assisted Living Home- A facility consisting of 10 or fewer residents in a private home setting located in residential neighborhoods.
Skilled Nursing Homes - What Are They?
A skilled nursing home is a medical facility providing services similar to a hospital. The homes are staffed with licensed nurses, shared rooms, hospital beds, regular scheduled doctor rounds, meals and housekeeping.
Senior Care for Alzheimer's
As a person ages, a certain amount of memory loss and confusion is quite normal. Personally, I've been known to invoke the cliché, "The older I get, the better I was!" Unfortunately, Alzheimer's disease represents a more serious loss of mental sharpness and calls for special care for seniors.
What You Need to Know About Helping Senior Citizens
IntroductionThe baby boomers is the population which haven taken birth after second world war till 1965 when there was a tremendous increase in birth rate due to the social and economic development in the USA. Now this population is going into the old age and thus bringing a burden to the nation as the country has to take care of not only the food and shelter but also the medical care.
There's a Deficit of Knowledge About Social Security
There is a knowledge deficit among those who are approaching the age at which they become eligible for Social Security, says senior advocate Dan Weber.
Feeling Lonely?
Q: I hate Alzheimer's disease, not only has it robbed me of my husband, but it has taken my life too! I feel like all of my friends have disappeared. I am lonely, and that makes me feel guilty.
Honey, Where Are The Car Keys?
Q: My mother is always losing, hiding and hoarding things, I am losing my mind! What can I do to get her to stop?A: This is a great question and I have a lot of material to work with.My grand mother had made me the most beautiful doilies.
Ask Rusty - Divorced Multiple Times
Dear Rusty: Reading your current letter regarding Social Security benefits for ex-spouses, I pose this question: Would an individual who has had multiple marriages be entitled to distributions of Social Security for each of his or her marriages? Assisted Living: Tips on How to Choose a Facility
It is easy to be fooled by fancy drapery or expensive furniture that may decorate a care facility. Even though a facility looks high class doesn't always mean the care provided is first class.
Respiratory Help Is Available For Seniors With COPD
As HMOs Continue to Drop Coverage for Seniors - Now Over 500,000 Victims - Those Needing Expensive Respiratory Medication, Support and Homecare Services are the Hardest HitOne Patient Advocate, Geriatric Services of America, is Providing Relief to Victimized Patients Through a Unique, Often No-Cost ProgramMore than 536,000 US senior citizens are scrambling to find new doctors or new coverage because their health plans terminated their Medicare managed-care services, according to a Nonrenewal Report issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the year 2002. Among the hardest hit are seniors in California (84,000), Florida (59,000), Pennsylvania (55,000), New Jersey (53,000), Texas (46,000), and Michigan (31,000), who will be losing coverage in the coming year.
Feeling Lonely?
Q: I hate Alzheimer's disease, not only has it robbed me of my husband, but it has taken my life too! I feel like all of my friends have disappeared. I am lonely, and that makes me feel guilty.
Local Businesses Serving Seniors Prove Commitment to Quality Care
Good news! You no longer have to risk chance when it comes to selecting a reputable elder care service for yourself or for a loved one. Senior Approved Services has certified a select number of businesses in our area serving the elderly and disabled populations.
Long Term In-home Care Options
Are you worried that you may lose all your life's earnings and nest egg due to the rising costs of in-home long term care? As you get older do you have the necessary finances to protect yourself from going broke while slightly incapacitated? Many seniors are worried about are worried about the costs of long-term health care.Are you worried that if something happens to you, that you may run out of money and burn thru their reserves and all your nest egg.
Prepare to Make Long-term Care Choices
Several months ago, I was coming out of a gas station when a woman stopped me and asked me what I did for a living. On the back of our van is our web address.
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