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...
Nov 16, 2022 | Home Care, Medicare, Paying for Care
My inbox is filled with emails from caregivers trying to figure out how to pay for their parents’ care. They’re facing complicated and hard choices. The big choices? Whether they should quit their job, move a parent into their home to avoid expensive care, or pay for...
Oct 2, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Digital Downloads, Feeling Overwhelmed, Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Navigating Change and Letting Go, Paying for Care
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
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...
May 7, 2022 | Home Care, Insights, Resources
Everyone says that they want to stay at home as they age. And, actually most of the frail older adults living in this country today are, in fact, living in a home setting. Really very few live in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Now you might think that...
Apr 23, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Paying for Care, Resources, Your Parent's Hospitalization
Most of us take for granted that we can get out of bed in the morning and do all the things necessary to head out and face our day. You know… the simple everyday things like moving around our house, showering, getting dressed and eating breakfast. I might be a...