Senior Living

While state-sponsored savings accounts for college — so-called “529 plans” — are an increasingly popular way for grandparents to fund a grandchild’s college education, they can have one serious drawback: Their impact on a grandparent’s Medicaid eligibility.

For those thinking of joining the growing ranks of professional geriatric caregivers, the Handbook of Geriatric Care Management is probably a 'must have' volume.

A New Jersey appeals court blocks a son who is the guardian of his mother from selling his mother's house and transferring a portion of the proceeds to hasten her eligibility for Medicaid coverage of her nursing home care. The...

A recent Pennsylvania court decision shows why early long-term care insurance policies had a bad reputation and why it's important to check your policy's terms, particularly if the policy was issued more than a decade ago. More . . .

Geriatric care managers support and guide older adults and their family members as they plan and arrange care. They are helpful when family members live too far away to help their loved ones directly.

U.S. Department of Labor's Disability.gov site is a one-stop source of government information relevant to people with disabilities. ...

The nursing home ombudsman program is generally failing to do its job of protecting residents from abuse and neglect, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, part of the paper's weeklong investigative series on preventable deaths in nursing...

Medicare officials have issued guidelines allowing homebound beneficiaries to leave their homes for special occasions--such as family reunions, graduations or funerals--without losing their home health care benefits. More . . .

Around the country, a handful of new approaches are being tried to do away with the hospital model for nursing homes and replace it with care that gives meaning to residents' lives, according to an article in the Washington Post.