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My mom, 80, needs nursing care, but Medicare won't pay — now the home wants to take her Social Security. I need a plan

If your appeal isn't successful, your mother will be considered a private pay patient. While she will not have her benefits ...

‘I can only rely on me’: How do I protect myself from my parents’ nursing-home bills?

Dear Quentin, I recently read this story on a local news channel: “Blindsided: Some nursing homes across the country ...

My Mom Needs Nursing Home Care —Can She Cash Out Her Annuity To Pay Off Her Mortgage And Still Qualify For Medicaid In New York?

Planning for long-term care is one of the hardest financial puzzles families face. In New York, one woman laid it out in ...
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Behind CMS’s freeze of all Nursing Home Care Compare data

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday it is freezing its chief nursing home information source for ...
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Budzinski Holds Roundtable to Discuss Long-Term Care, Medicaid Changes in Big, Ugly Bill

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) hosted a roundtable conversation with local nursing homes, ...

Health care groups aim to counter growing ‘national scandal’ of elder homelessness

At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths. Then she ...