Spending: In Elder Care, Signing on Becomes a Way to Drop By
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With the number of older Americans growing rapidly, products and services to help adult children care for their parents are on the rise.
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Many Valley retirees who thought they would have lifetime health care have learned the hard way that companies are cutting back or eliminating their benefits altogether.
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Changes to Medicare have many seniors in a tailspin. Prescription drug cards, managed care, Medigap, Part B -- they can&#39;t sort it out on their own, and the constant barrage of targeted advertisements and slick-sounding come-ons don&#39;t help.
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Most people have no plans to put money aside to pay for the extra care they will need in old age, a survey suggests.
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Having to pay as little as $10 of a mammogram's cost leads many older women to skip the breast cancer exam, a large study of Medicare users finds.
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By Kara Rowland, The Washington Times  Dec. 15--Anyone who has tried to show grandma how to use a mouse knows  that computers are anything but second nature to America's older population.
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Bill-paying is getting more and more convenient. But with that convenience comes the possibility of many complications and headaches.
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With fewer young people to work and pay taxes, the cost of looking after older people with state pensions becomes ever more prohibitive.
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Stop paying a bucketful of cash for a thimble's worth of coverage.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- Caregivers who provide help with such tasks as managing money and medication experience more stress than those who mostly assist with the physical needs of an aged or disabled relative, says a University of Arkansas (UA) study.
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Some elderly Americans simply stop taking their prescribed drugs when insurance plans cease paying for them, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Millions of low-income seniors are a phone call away from getting $1,200 to spend on prescription drugs next year - provided they call by Jan. 1. The money is available to seniors with an income of less than $12,568 a year and no other drug benefit.
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My grandmother, Big Mama, often wrote her budget on the back of old envelopes. I marveled at how she, a nursing assistant, managed to stay within her budget making just above minimum wage while raising five grandchildren -- without the help of state aid, which she was entitled to but refused.
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By Glynis Jones  Dear Editor, It is all very well older people learning to use the internet, but a lot of them are never going to be able to afford to buy a computer to use at home.
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Retirees face a whopping medical bill in their golden years.
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Your parents are getting older. Here's how you can help them.
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A retired hospital administrator and instructor, she has spent the past few months getting seniors up to speed on the federal program&#39;s discount drugs cards, available this and next year before