Tag: All about seniors

Money Follows the Person Changes Lives

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Money Follows the Person (MFP) is a state project that helps Medicaid-eligible North Carolinians who live in inpatient facilities (e.g., nursing homes, intermediate care facilities) move into their own homes and communities with supports.

Home Care Activities for People with Dementia

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Cognitive health is a person’s ability to think, learn and remember. The most common cognitive health issue facing the elderly is the loss of those cognitive functions, or dementia.

Being a Funeral Director

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Careers come and go and may change from time to time; but when your job is your passion it becomes your life and ministry.  Karen considers her career as a funeral director her ministry. 

Becoming a Person with True Integrity

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A new year brings new opportunities and fresh starts!  Most of us make a list of New Year’s resolutions.  We start out great, but by March, what a different story! 

Asset Protection & Medicaid Eligibility: Part 2, Single Individuals

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When the need for long-term care arises, most people fear that they cannot afford to privately pay the cost of a skilled nursing facility, yet assume that they make too much money or have too many assets to qualify for long-term care Medicaid. 

What is the latest in Alzheimer’s treatment?

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Alzheimer’s disease remains the most common form of dementia. In the United States, there are currently an estimated 5.5 million Americans living with this disease, and if there are no disease modifying drugs developed, it may increase to 16 million by 2050.