On Wednesday, January 11, I had the honor and the pleasure of conducting a continuing education seminar for nearly 70 certified financial planners.
Sponsored by the Financial Planners Association of New York, this two-hour, two CFP® CE credits presentation entitled How to help your clients and their families survive the black hole called ”eldercare.”
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"I highly recommend Jack's talk if you are, will be, or could be in the role of caregiver but aren't 100% sure you know the rights of elders and how to safeguard them, and what to watch out for to ensure your loved one is properly cared for. The difference could be a matter of life or death."
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By Jack Halpern, CEO, My Elder Advocate
Because the families we serve compensate us directly, we represent only them. We are never obligated in any way to serve or protect the needs or interests of the hospital, nursing home, insurance companies, private healthcare service providers, government agencies, and so on.
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New York State Cuts Home Health Care;
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By Jack Halpern, CEO, My Elder Advocate
It’s clearly traumatic to elders physically, emotionally, and psychologically when they require a hospital or nursing home.
But it’s equally traumatic to another person, too. That’s the caregiver –– usually a family member –– who has no choice but to step in and support that elder family member.
The settlement resolved a case that was filed in Brooklyn federal court in 2006 and that accused the state of violating the spirit of its own longstanding rules for housing mentally ill people.
via www.nytimes.com
A study by researchers at the University of Iowa, reported on by Reuters, found that black residents of long-term care facilities are more likely to suffer from pressure sores. The difference in care is not a result of nursing homes providing better quality care for white residents, but rather that residents were more likely to develop pressure sores in nursing homes where a majority of the residents are black. Like many types of nursing home abuse or neglect, this could be a result of understaffing or fewer resources.
http://news.healingwell.com/index.php?p=news1&id=654736
By Jack Halpern, CEO, My Elder Advocate
As readers of My Elder Advocate Blog are well aware, we often speak about the grave danger to elders who are evicted from Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, and Adult Homes. A nursing home eviction often leads to disorientation, loss of identity, depression, and death.
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By Jack Halpern, CEO, My Elder Advocate
As I travel across the country visiting with my clients in Nursing Homes and other long-term care facilities, I find that a majority of our nursing home residents aren’t getting the proper exercise to help them maintain mobility and their health.
As you may be aware, at least 70% of our elders enter a nursing home because they require physical rehabilitation after a fall or stroke. They spend a brief time in the hospital and are quickly sent (some too quickly) to a rehabilitation center that most of the time is a nursing home.
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One of my pet peeves with is that there is no rhyme or reason to how they choose their residents. The only goal is to “fill” a bed without regard to how a potential resident will get along with other residents.
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The State budget enacted in late March 2011 included extensive changes in how certified home health agencies (CHHAs) are paid by Medicaid for home health services. Some of these changes are effective immediately - on April 1, 2011 - and will likely result in reduced reimbursement for CHHA services. See changes described here Fundamental Changes to NYS Medicaid in 2011 State Budget -- and information about CHHA services generally posted at Medicaid Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) Services. None of these changes requires or allows immediate reduction or termination of CHHA services.
All these candidates insisting they can clean up Albany should take a good look at the case of a truly stubborn taxpayer leech to see what they're up against: The culprit is a Brooklyn-based firm misnamed Excellent Home Care Services, and it has been happily pillaging state coffers for years without interference.
May 16, 2011 - Nursing homes are seeking exemptions from the new health care law, claiming an inability to fund new insurance coverage mandates, according to the New York Times.
via maplight.org
Nursing Home Lobbying Group Seeking Exemption from Health Care Law Due to High Costs Contributed $4.5 Million in Last Decade
More than half of the antipsychotics paid for by the federal Medicare program in the first half of 2007 were “erroneous,” the audit found, costing the program $116 million for those six months.
via www.nytimes.com
I have been warning people about this for years. These drugs are destroying the elderly with dementia. It is mind control and chemical restraints of the first order. We must stop this now.
Jack Halpern
By Carole Larkin
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Ever feel like your loved one is ignoring you or that you just weren’t getting through to your loved one? Try some of these tips to see if they help.
May 5, 2011 — American nursing homes have a poor track record of keeping infections at bay, a new study shows.
via www.medscape.com
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