Health Care

Make Long-Term Care Insurance Part of Health Care

Why not make insurance for long-term care services and supports part of health care coverage? It is a radical idea that turns the current model—which often treats long-term care insurance as an element of retirement planning—entirely on its head.  The concept isn’t new. John Rother, who ran public policy for AARP for many years, talked about integrating long-term services and [...]

What You Need to Know if Mom Needs Surgery

Increasingly, surgeons are beginning to change the way they perform operations on elderly patients. They are coming to realize that almost everything is different about surgery on older people:  The patient’s goals, the likelihood of complications, and the entire process of treatment from pre-op through surgery itself to recovery. As a result, doctors are learning that they not only need [...]

By |2012-04-05T22:00:29-04:00April 5th, 2012|Aging, Health Care|1 Comment