Jun 12, 2019 | News
From USA Today — WASHINGTON – Veterans will have expanded access to medical care outside Department of Veterans Affairs facilities beginning Thursday under a law signed by President Donald Trump last year and touted as a major achievement by Trump on the campaign...
Jun 5, 2019 | News
From KFF.org — The Medicare Part D program provides an outpatient prescription drug benefit to older adults and people with long-term disabilities in Medicare who enroll in private plans, including stand-alone prescription drug plans (PDPs) to supplement traditional...
May 29, 2019 | News
From Market Watch — Older Americans increasingly opt for ‘continuing care at home’ plans or join programs that foster community support. After surviving cardiac arrest in 2013, Martin Faga left the hospital to begin his recovery at home. It didn’t go smoothly. “It...
May 22, 2019 | News
From USA Today — It’s always been a sort of final chapter of the American dream: Get married and have kids. Buy a house. Move to a bigger house. Downsize to a smaller one. But a growing number of aging baby boomers are saying, “No, thanks” to downsizing, choosing...
May 15, 2019 | News
From DisabilityScoop.com — As more states turn to managed care to administer Medicaid, federal investigators are set to examine whether these companies are offering people with disabilities the care they’re entitled. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’...
May 8, 2019 | News
From The Washinton Post — Young and old are concerned that the safety net designed to keep people from abject poverty is running out of money and may be shut down. They aren’t wrong to worry. Fifty-seven percent of retirees rely on Social Security as their primary...
May 1, 2019 | News
From The New York Times — WASHINGTON — The financial outlook for Medicare and Social Security, two of the nation’s most important social safety net programs, remains precarious, threatening to diminish retirement payments and increase health care costs for Americans...
Apr 24, 2019 | News
From Reuters — It is one of the most important retirement documents you will ever receive – but fewer Americans are reviewing their Social Security benefit statement nowadays due to cost-cutting and a government push to online services that is falling short....
Apr 17, 2019 | News
From Next Avenue — Dr. Subhechchha Shah recently saw an 80-year-old patient with a long list of medical ills, including chronic pain from multiple back surgeries, Parkinson’s disease and related dementia. In the past, Shah would have referred the patient to...
Apr 10, 2019 | News
From Market Watch — In honor of April, which is financial literacy month, Google unveiled the 10 questions that Americans ask most about retirement. The question Americans ask the search engine most often about retirement: “How much do I need to retire?” 10...
