Expert Column
Ron Kauffman, CSA 
Resources for Successful Aging
Ron Kauffman is a certified senior advisor (CSA) with more than forty years of...read more
Articles In This Column
- Avoiding Surprises: Which Services are Covered by Medicare for Your Aging Parent with Alzheimer's?
- How to Communicate with Elderly Parents
- Alzheimer's Disease or Depression? Why Getting an Accurate Diagnosis Isn't Always Easy
- Financial Planning: How to Protect Your Aging Parent's Financial Future
- Recognize the Signs of Early Memory Loss in Your Elderly Parent
- From Balancing a Checkbook to Purchasing LTCI: Tips for Talking to Aging Parents about Financial Matters
- The Family Caregiver: Parenting Your Parent or Spouse
Caregiving: Parenting Your Parents
Avoiding Surprises: Which Services are Covered by Medicare for Your Aging Parent with Alzheimer's?
Even before the call from our new president and congress went out that we need to overhaul not only Medicare, but our entire health care program—both of which are topics for another discussion—there were some very nasty surprises for many families, regarding the costs of caring for an Alzheimer's patient and who will bear those costs. Planning Ahead for Mom Was a Financial Blessing In a previous article I talked about the challenge of having to basically force Mom...Read entire article »
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How to Communicate with Elderly Parents
When you communicate with your elderly parents, do you ever think, "Maybe we're just not speaking the same language?" Or, "Why don't my senior parents understand? I only want to help, but there's just no talking to them." We "kids," many of whom are aged 50 to 70 ourselves, are dealing with all kinds of parental challenges, especially if Mom or Dad still lives at home on their own. We can clearly see the problems— everything from financial struggles...Read entire article »
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Alzheimer's Disease or Depression? Why Getting an Accurate Diagnosis Isn't Always Easy
Getting a reliable, initial early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be difficult, as both depression and Alzheimer's disease can present similar symptoms, signs and behaviors. And before you can treat a problem, you have to know for certain what the problem is. The challenge has to do, in part, with the problems of today's health care crises—a growing number of patients, too few specialized geriatric physicians and too little time to perform a complete patient assessment. Choosing the Right...Read entire article »
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Financial Planning: How to Protect Your Aging Parent's Financial Future
Financial planning can be tricky. The process is unique for each person due to myriad factors including income, expenses and much, much more. My mother was married to Lee, a man who didn't believe in doing a great deal of future planning. Oh, he saved money and invested, but the idea of ever needing something like long-term care insurance was totally outside of his view of the real world. His favorite response to almost anything that would cost money...Read entire article »
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Recognize the Signs of Early Memory Loss in Your Elderly Parent
During the early years of Mom’s mild cognitive impairment with early memory loss she remained fairly independent, living with her husband who eventually required her full-time caregiving. As those demands increased, I found that I, too, had to increase the frequency of my visits to her home be sure Mom was okay and coping with being a caregiver. When “Everything’s Fine!” But It Clearly Isn’t Both my brother in California and my sister in Pennsylvania made regular telephone calls...Read entire article »
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