Are Your Things Getting in the Way of Your Life?
Can you Afford to Live a Long Life? Take the Longevity Quiz & Find Out!
Award Winning Products – Lifelines Sponsor, Nurture Connect, Knows How to Pick Them!
Industry Expert Beth Warren, Owner of Welcome Home Relocation, Shares her Secrets
Lifelines Academy & Network and Keeping Us Safe Announce Strategic Partnership
No Advanced Directives or LifeDocuments™ – An Alarming Trend
How Caregiver Support Groups can Improve Your Eldercare Business
What Families Need to Know When Choosing In-Home Senior Care
Part 2 – What Clients Need to Know About Medicare
Part 1 – What Clients Need to Know About Medicare
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By Robin Blinder of Consider It Organized How many hours a week do you spend buying, looking for, fixing or cleaning things? While many things are essential or give us pleasure, others are dispensable. In fact, your things may be getting in the way of living your best life. Perhaps you wish you had a smaller home to maintain, but the thought of moving is overwhelming. Or you know it would be a gift to your children to downsize now so they had less to deal with later, but you don’t know where to start. Maybe the personal belongings of...
By Cynthia Touchton, Vice President and Senior Investment Consultant, Private Wealth Management, Robert W. Baird & Co. We all wish for a long life. We’re staying fit and eating right, or hoping we got the good genes! We dream of retirement years filled with more time with family, travel and pursuing interests that we haven’t had time to enjoy since our teens. I hope your dreams for your “Golden Years” come true, but there is a new retirement reality that must be faced. Many people will run out of money because of the failure to plan for the blessing...
By Shana Duthie, CEO of Nurture Connect At Nurture Connect we love finding the best products for our customers and our Sales Consultants. We are truly passionate about testing products before offering them our customers—and, we work hard at. When products that we stand behind with distribution, education and our “special brand of nurturing” win awards – we get excited! For us it solidifies our belief that we know how to pick winners! Four of our favorite companies received product awards in the third annual New Product & Technology Awards® organized by the Mature Market Resource Center and we couldn’t...
Press Release IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2012 Contact: 1) Sheryl Hunter, CEO, Lifelines Academy & Network 866-307-0827 or Sheryl@lifelinesacademy.com Industry Expert Beth Warren, Owner of Welcome Home Relocation, Shares her Secrets at the 2012 National Association of Senior Move Managers Conference (TAMPA, FL) – Veteran senior move manager Beth Warren, President of Welcome Home Relocation in Belleair, Florida, has been sharing her secrets to help newcomers to the growing field of senior move management. Most recently, at the 2012 NASMM Conference & Expo, held in Austin, Texas and the largest in NASMM’s 10+ year...
Press Release IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2012 Contact: 1) Sheryl Hunter, J. D., CEO, Lifelines Academy & Network 866-307-0827 or Sheryl@lifelinesacademy.com 2) Matt Gurwell, Founder & CEO, Keeping Us Safe, LLC 877-907-8841 or info@keepingussafe.org (Tampa, FL) – Lifelines Academy & Network is pleased to announce the formation of a collaborative educational partnership with Keeping Us Safe, LLC. Their unified goal is to contribute to the safety and independence of seniors who should no longer be driving by educating eldercare professionals to effectively address this pervasive and growing challenge. Most people will outlive their driving capability. Men by...
Lifelines Network Member, Aging in Place Expert and Interior Designer Michael Thomas forwarded me an alarming article about a trend in baby boomers not to have their advanced directives in place or to have their critical LifeDocuments™ in order. Advanced directives include documents like a living will and a healthcare proxy document. LifeDocuments™ include your other critical medical, legal, financial and personal information. Michael worked with us at Lifelines Academy to develop a series of webinars titled “Design for Independency” focused on allowing people to age in place in their homes by making design choices that accommodate the challenges we face...
By Mimi Buderus My company, Right at Home of Tampa Bay,provides non-medical, in-home care and assistance for seniors and other clients including support for rehabilitation, post-hospitalization, post-surgery, plastic surgery recovery and sudden, chronic and acute illnesses. Running a demanding business, while maintaining a connection to the needs of the community and prospective clients, is always a challenge. The best way I have found to serve my community, learn what my target market needs and demonstrate my knowledge as an eldercare expert is to facilitate support groups in my community. Doing so feeds my soul, my mind and...
By Shannon Martin, EasyLiving, Inc. Home Health Agency When families are searching for help for their elders in the home, it can be confusing for them to navigate the different options available, from seeking someone privately to hire to the various agency types. Here is a breakdown of some important information for family caregivers and professionals who are trying to help, specifically regarding the options in the state of Florida. The state of Florida regulates home care and healthcare-related businesses, and there are essentially three types of agencies specifically related to in-home senior care. The first...
By Shannon Martin, Aging Wisely, LLC Hospitalization Coverage Issues: A growing concern for Medicare recipients is the issue of inpatient hospitalization vs. observation status/outpatient stays. A doctor must write an order to admit you to the hospital as an inpatient. You may be considered an outpatient even if you have spent the night (or several) at the hospital receiving ER services, observation services, outpatient surgery, lab tests, x-rays, and the Dr. has not written an order to admit you to the hospital. Medicare Part A covers inpatient services after a deductible is reached (in 2011, $1132 for...
By Shannon Martin, Aging Wisely, LLC Medicare Open Enrollment for drug plans takes place each year towards the end of the year. Starting in 2011, the period will be from October 15th to December 7th. During this time, Medicare recipients can switch Medicare Part D programs (prescription drug coverage) or enroll or disenroll from a Medicare Advantage plan. From January 1st-February 14th, those enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan can also disenroll and switch back to regular Medicare (this is the only change that can be made during that period). It is worth each Medicare recipient’s time...