Elderly hit by soaring cost of home help
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Many vulnerable people now face eligibility tests for basic services as councils tighten budgets.
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Like an allowance that extends far past adolescence, parents are helping finance their childrenâs lives longer, and depleting their retirement savings in the process.
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If you think you may need to help your elderly relatives with their finances, don't be shy about having the money talk -- soon.
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Seniors lose interest quickly in mechanical helpmates, though some gadgets are a hit.
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For your home or finances, going it alone isn't always best.
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The finances of first-time home buyers are being stretched to record levels by rising house prices.
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A council is ordered to reimburse the cost of a 90-year-old's free personal care after an ombudsman's inquiry.
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Filling the doughnut hole in Medicare drug plans would cost older people and the disabled about $40 a month more.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Carol Birmingham almost had a heart attack when she realized her Mac Attack had cost $8,700.  The 62-year-old British tourist didn't notice until Sunday morning that she had left her cash-stuffed purse on a McDonald's counter when she bought lunch the previous day.
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NEW YORK  - Out-of-pocket costs may be  causing millions of older adults in the U.S. to cut back on  prescriptions for conditions as serious as diabetes, asthma and  depression, a new study suggests.
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(HealthDay News) -- When an elderly person falls, it could cause life-threatening injury.
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The U.S. Congress approved a $300  million boost in emergency funds to help poor and elderly  Americans pay home heating bills that are expected to be  sharply higher than last winter.
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Home foreclosures have set a record in the face of a Fed request to avoid taking homes.
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The Office of Fair Trading says the elderly and vulnerable are being targeted by an array of increasingly sophisticated scams that are ripping consumers off to the tune of Â£3.5bn a year.
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The devastation brought on by Hurricane Charley has been especially painful for an elderly population that is among the largest in the nation.
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When an aging parent beings to slip financially, could it be a sign?
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The number of individuals going bankrupt has hit a record high, government figures revealed yesterday in fresh evidence that over-indebted households are struggling to cope with recent interest rate rises.