How To Find A High-Quality Home Healthcare Provider
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How To Find A High-Quality Home Healthcare Provider

Aging

How To Find A High-Quality Home Healthcare Provider

There are many factors to consider when choosing a home healthcare provider. Home health services include Skilled Nursing, Physical, Occupational, Speech, Therapy, Medical Social Services, and Home Health Aide. Choosing a high-quality home healthcare provider that is recognized for excellent care can help increase your likelihood of recovering faster and staying healthy at home. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reports on home health quality measures on the Care Compare website. The website is a tool to help consumers choose a home healthcare provider. It's designed to be an easy-to-access, convenient, official source of information about provider quality [...]

Rothkoff Law Group2024-03-08T11:24:43-05:00August 30, 2022|

Home Care Plays a Pivotal Role in the Healthcare Continuum
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Home Care Plays a Pivotal Role in the Healthcare Continuum

Healthy Aging, Aging

Home Care Plays a Pivotal Role in the Healthcare Continuum

The home care industry is a sector of the healthcare continuum poised for continuous growth due to many factors but largely driven by a burgeoning aging population seeking to “age in place.” People seeking care at home are usually doing so for the first time, unaware of the scope of services, cost, insurance coverage, and the interaction of home care providers with others in the healthcare continuum. This article identifies those critical interactions. Home Healthcare Providers Medical home healthcare providers offer nursing, therapies, and other clinical sub-specialties. These services are covered (with limits) by Medicare and other health insurance. Home [...]

Rothkoff Law Group2024-03-08T11:25:51-05:00August 16, 2022|

Self-Directed Medicaid Home Care Options
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Self-Directed Medicaid Home Care Options

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Self-Directed Medicaid Home Care Options

For a multitude of reasons, even once approved for Medicaid, many families have been hesitant to move their loved ones to an Assisted Living or Nursing Home environment, opting instead for home care. However, home care through an agency comes with issues of its own, primarily rooted in staffing shortages. It is no secret that the United States’ aging population is growing, an impending crisis exacerbated and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Philadelphia Inquirer recently called out Pennsylvania’s lack of comprehensive eldercare solutions, rating their “level of preparedness at a ‘C’ or ‘D,’” not nearly good enough to match [...]

Rothkoff Law Group2024-03-08T12:23:09-05:00September 10, 2021|

The Value of Home Modifications for Older Adults

The focus of our elder care law firm is to offer a multi-disciplinary approach to address the issues associated with the aging process. Traditional legal services such as drafting estate planning documents, trust planning, and guardianships are important legal tools that everyone should plan for. However, these purely legal tools do not prevent seniors from falling in their home and subsequently requiring a hospital stay and possible nursing home placement. As such, we provide both legal and non-legal care advocacy services to keep seniors at home, where most older adults want to be. COVID-19 and its aftermath have made senior [...]

Rothkoff Law Group2024-03-08T12:25:12-05:00July 9, 2021|

“Shared Living” – Older Parents Living with their Adult Children
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“Shared Living” – Older Parents Living with their Adult Children

Caregiver, Aging

“Shared Living” – Older Parents Living with their Adult Children

“Shared Living” is a term that can refer to parents moving in with their adult children. This type of shared living has become more common in recent years for many reasons. Parents may move into their adult children’s homes because of financial or medical reasons, as well as to simply strengthen family bonds. The Covid-19 pandemic has also spurred an increase in shared living as families have been concerned about the high incidence of infections of Covid-19 in nursing homes and other senior living alternatives. Recently, a friend and his siblings worked together to assist their mother in her move [...]

Rothkoff Law Group2024-03-08T12:29:04-05:00April 22, 2021|

“Granny Pods” Allow Your Aging Parents to Live in Your Backyard
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“Granny Pods” Allow Your Aging Parents to Live in Your Backyard

Healthy Aging

“Granny Pods” Allow Your Aging Parents to Live in Your Backyard

Are Granny Pods the solution to helping our parents live on their own and have supervision simultaneously? AARP estimates that about 23 million Americans take care of their elderly parents. Many wish to “age in place,” however living on their own may not be an option and may cause anxiety and guilt for some families. Some adult children are willing to welcome grandma or grandpa into their own homes but may not have the space. If you are considering inviting mom or dad to live with you but lack space there are options, both temporary and permanent. Have you seen [...]

Stephanie Fisch2024-03-08T12:42:44-05:00July 29, 2016|