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The Veterans Administration offers its wartime veterans (and their surviving spouses) a special pension called the Aid and Attendance Benefit.  This benefit is intended to help veterans (and their surviving spouses) pay for long term care.  This benefit is often misunderstood or unknown.  We prov...
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I just read an article about the upcoming shortages of skilled nursing facilities. We see a cyclical pattern around here. At one point all the facilities have waiting lists, and a few months later clients have their pick of facility for immediate admission.  As the article stated, some facilities l...
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Older drivers are over-involved in right-of-way crashes, primarily at intersections and most often coming from the side of the driver’s vehicle. It has been determined that accidents do not happen in front of the drivers, where they are continuously looking, but occur most frequently from the side...
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Anytime that the VA believes that a veteran cannot handle money themselves, the veteran must go through the VA's fiduciary process.  In our practice, we generally see this when there has been a diagnosis of any type of dementia.  For service connected veterans there may be other factors, such as P...
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When I think of safety at an assisted living or in a nursing home, I think of handrails and sprinkler systems. I rarely think about identity theft. Burglary definitely does not come to mind. However, there have been reports of burglaries at several assisted living communities lately.  This news mad...
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