Older adults face confusing decisions about benefits for financial and health care. One resource for information about such topics is the local Area Agency on Aging. Those offices throughout Mississippi…
The holidays might not seem like an ideal time for adult children to discuss serious issues with aging parents. A Wall Street Journal article a few years back suggested that…
About 1 in 9 people over 65 has Alzheimer’s disease. As noted in this article from Kaiser Health Network, the task of caregiving creates quite an unpaid burden on caregivers…
If you are a Medicare enrollee, you likely have a Part D prescription drug plan to help pay for your medications. You should re-evaluate your plan before December 7 to…
Our prior articles in this e-newsletter have explained how a spouse or disabled adult child of someone who files for Social Security benefits can begin receiving an auxiliary benefit in…
The recent White House Conference on Aging has now launched a one-stop link to aging resources. The website's address or URL, www.Aging.gov, is made to remember. The home page leads…
The Mississippi Grandparents’ Visitation Act, Mississippi Code Annotated section 93-16-3 (Rev. 2013), provides as follows: (1) Whenever a court of this state enters a decree or order awarding custody of…
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation August 3 requiring hospitals across the nation to tell Medicare patients when they receive observation care, but have not been admitted to the hospital…
On July 30, 2015 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for children, the poor, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Some facts about Medicaid are…
On July 30, 2015 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Medicare, the medical insurance program for the elderly and persons with disabilities. In 1963, when President John Kennedy signed the…
