Peggy Papert, Author at Elder Care Consultants of Texas - Page 2 of 2

A care manager may be a social worker, nurse or gerontologist who specializes in assisting older people and their families in navigating and evaluating the health care services available to them. Whether short-term or long-term, care managers can be helpful health care advocates for you and your loved ones. Care managers are experts in working with individuals to identify their goals and locate the specific support services that enhance quality of life and well being. Short term care management may involve finding the right rehabilitation facility when being discharged from an acute care hospital, the right skilled nursing care or…

There are different parts to Medicare: – Part A (hospital insurance) helps pay for inpatient hospital care, skilled nursing care, hospice care and home health care. – Part B (medical insurance) helps pay for doctors fees, outpatient hospital visits, some preventive care and durable medical equipment. – Part C (Medicare Advantage) is an alternative coverage option to Original Medicare that allows you to choose to receive all of your health care services and prescription drug coverage through one plan. Medicare Advantage plans include Part A and Part B covered services, and often includes Part D (prescription drug coverage). – Part…

A new study led by associate professor Rebecca Ready in the department of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that older adults have different, more positive responses than young adults about feelings such as serenity, sadness and loneliness. Ready calls the findings “highly clinically significant” because the information could help caregivers, psychotherapists and workers at assisted living facilities, for example, better understand the emotions of older people in their care, which could lead to improved treatment and quality of interactions. She says, “Older adults report feeling more serenity than younger persons. They also have…

The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. Too many people are dying in a way they wouldn’t choose, and too many of their loved ones are left feeling bereaved, guilty, and uncertain. It’s time to transform our culture so we shift from not talking about dying to talking about it. It’s time to share the way we want to live at the end of our lives. And it’s time to communicate about the kind of care we want and don’t want for ourselves. We believe that the place for this to begin…