Moving elderly parents into your home can bring daunting challenges and unexpected closeness. Over the past 20 years, parents living with their adult children has become increasingly common.
Most people become eligible for Medicare during the months around their 65th birthday. If you don’t sign up for Medicare during this initial enrollment period, you could be charged a late enrollment penalty, for as long as you have Medicare.
The list of things you need to do after someone dies can seem endless, especially during a time when you are also grieving.
Finding and elder law attorney is as easy as googling, “elder law attorney near me.” Anyone can find an elderly law attorney but finding the right one is where things get a tad difficult. If you want your elder law case to be in the right hands, then you might have to do a bit of digging.
In February, Social Security officials calculated that a woman who was sent monthly checks for decades was 114 years old. The problem? The lifelong New Yorker died more than 40 years ago—and may never have seen a penny of her retirement checks totaling nearly a half-million dollars.
Medicare kicks in at 65 to help cover healthcare costs as a senior. However, it’s not nearly as comprehensive as many people think.
Long-term care insurance consumers — usually upper-middle age and older Americans — face enough hurdles in finding the best policies. Complicated contracts, high fees and charges and booming premiums await any long-term care insurance buyer.
About 43% of more than 125,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths are linked to nursing homes, according to a New York Times analysis. Even before the pandemic, many of those facilities suffered a lack of funding.
Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation to ensure that older adults can continue to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scammers gravitate to tightened finances, like moths to a flame. To complicate matters, shelter-in-place restrictions have pushed people to make more online transactions. That means new opportunities for fraudsters to take advantage of seniors, who may be new digital accountholders.
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