Changes Could Improve Medicare and Seniors’ Health
If you’ve been frightened by all the gloom and doom talk in Washington about the future of Medicare, the good news is that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) actually strengthens the health care program for seniors and offers preventive services that should boost your health. The act also starts to close the so-called and much […]
Making Tax Time a Little Bit Easier
Reprinted from the Senior Spirit Newsletter, a CSA Publication It’s that time of year again, a time of teeth-gnashing and pencil-crunching, as we haul out our receipts and statements from last year and prepare to do our federal income tax returns. As tax deadline approaches, you may not be aware of all the deductions available […]
Did you know…?
Approximately 75 percent of people over age 65 have a valid driver’s license, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to recent research, people age 70 to 75 have a life expectancy of at least 18 years. On average, they can expect to drive 11 of these years and depend on other […]
Stories From the Road………..Setting an Example
(“Stories From the Road…Stories of the Heart” is about the personal experiences of over 200 volunteer drivers across America and how the simple act of driving someone in need touches their own hearts) As a working woman in the early 1990’s, I had the pleasure of serving a variety of people in the Knoxville area through […]
And The Survey Says……..
Blessings! For Seniors goal is to provide superior client satisfaction and uses Home Care Pulse, a third party company that surveys Non-Medical Home Care Companies nationwide, to conduct a telephone survey to measure how we are doing. Our clients are asked to rate us on a scale from 1-5 with 5 being the best in […]
How to Communicate with People Who Have Dementia
Believe in their personhood The goal in caring for a person with dementia is their well-being. Tom Kitwood, one of the most respected voices in early dementia care and the author of Dementia Reconsidered, says that we can enhance the well-being of individuals with dementia by “facilitating a sense of personal worth, a sense of […]
Testimonial
“I can’t begin to express how grateful our whole family is to the wonderful staff at Blessings! for Seniors for the way they dealt with the needs of my 96-year-old dad on very short notice. His wife had become very ill and, unbeknownst to our family in the Midwest, had neglected him severely as her […]
Fraud Warning
If you or your loved ones are Diabetes patients, please beware when you/they pick up the phone. Calls claiming to be from Medicare are not. If they offer you/them free glucose meters or diabetic test strips, that’s a red flag, because Medicare never makes calls offering supplies or services. Gary Cantrell is deputy inspector general for […]
Top Five Scams that target Senior’s-Don’t be a Victim
It’s not just wealthy seniors who are targeted. Low-income older adults are also at risk of financial abuse. And it’s not always strangers who perpetrate these crimes. Over 90% of all reported elder abuse is committed by an older person’s own family members, most often their adult children, followed by grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and […]
Fall Prevention
www.blessingsforseniors.com About half of all falls happen at home. To make your home safer: Keep items you use often in cabinets you can reach easily without using a step stool. www.blessingsforseniors.com
