Our blog, Educated Aging has been nominated to the SeniorHomes.com Best Senior Living Awards 2014 in the Best Boomer Resources category. The Best Senior Living Awards 2014 highlights top resources, people, providers and organizations in a wide variety of caregiving and senior living categories. I would certainly be appreciative of...
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NCOA Senior Housing Tool Helps You Age in Place
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has launched a new site that can help you find information, tools, and consumer advice to use and protect the value in your home. Get custom advice for your life situationÛÓeven if you need help now. It was created by the nonprofit National Council...
Discharge From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Can Have Long-Term Consequences
@Photodisc, Getty Images A national study has shown that being hospitalized for a stroke or hip fracture can lead to long-term institutionalization in a nursing home. Direct discharge to a skilled nursing facility put patients at “extremely high risk” of needing long-term nursing home care. Researchers at the University of...
Best of the Web Produces Valuable Resource Guide for Caregivers
I served as a judge for SeniorHomes.com Best of the Web awards this past year. As a result of the resources they uncovered they have produced a comprehensive senior living guide to transform contest results into a tangible, useful format for consumers.I have reviewed it and it is quite comprehensive....