Sep 25, 2023 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, End-of-Life, Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Navigating Change and Letting Go
Caregivers have questions! At Daughterhood, we’ve heard a lot of them over the years. Each person comes to us with a unique and complex set of problems. These problems almost always generate some version of the question, “Where do I go for help? Where do I even...
Jan 27, 2023 | Medicaid, Medicare, Paying for Care, Resources, Uncategorized
My friend Quentin Fottrell is the Moneyologist columnist over at MarketWatch. He recently shared with his facebook group a reader question about whether a woman should help her 75-year-old sister with medical-related credit card debt. Two commenters asked, “Why does...
Jan 13, 2023 | Medicaid, Paying for Care
I have a confession. I’ve been avoiding writing about Medicaid. It’s just so complicated it scares even me the expert. But Medicaid can be really important to daughterhood. Someday you might have to decide if it’s right for your parent. So, you have to get smart...
Oct 14, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Feeling Guilty, Feeling Overwhelmed, Medicaid, Medicare, Navigating Change and Letting Go, Paying for Care, Resources, Uncategorized
In a recent survey, AARP found that about three-quarters of all caregivers spend, on average, 20 percent of their household income on caregiving. This is on top of the estimated $470 billion in unpaid care that they provide; and doesn’t include the potential lost...
Oct 2, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Feeling Overwhelmed, Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Navigating Change and Letting Go, Paying for Care, Uncategorized
On August 16th we hosted our 6th Daughterhood conversation on Zoom focused on Navigating Home Care for Your Parents. I was joined by Andrea Cohen, founder, and CEO of Houseworks and Christine Lee, founder and CEO of Companion Home Care Solutions, an agency that...
Jun 3, 2022 | Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Paying for Care, Resources, Uncategorized
If you’re caring for someone over the age of 65, chances are that you know something about Medicare, the health insurance program that covers nearly all older Americans. But there’s another really important program that you need to know about: MediCAID. Medicaid is...