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Care Coordination or Geriatric Care Management Services
These services and experts provide families guidance and help when working with their senior loved ones. Typically, with a background in social work, these counselors can provide assessments, un-biased recommendations, advocacy, and coordination of services. They can help you decide if home health care is the answer, or a move to a senior community is the best solution for your loved one. They assist families and loved ones in understanding the choices that need to be made. This type of service is particularly helpful to out of town family, as it gives them a local presence to watch over the care being provided.
Physicians and Health Experts
include geriatric doctors and geriatric physicians as well as senior health care services including pharmacies, medications, prescription drugs, etc.
Moving and Packing Services
can assist seniors and their loved ones in all levels of making a move. Some senior moving services help with just the moving, others help the seniors pack and downsize, move, unpack and get situated in their new home. Some even hang pictures. A few of these agencies will help sell discarded items, whether through their connections in the market, or through auctions and estate sales they hold themselves.
Downsizing Management Services
help guide seniors and their families through the sometimes uncomfortable process of downsizing their possessions. They will take unwanted possessions and sell the treasures (through auctioneers, estate sales, yard sales, retail space, etc.) and donate the discarded.
Financial Guidance Experts
offer a variety of financial guidance that can include: Retirement Planning, expense planning and budgeting, checkbook management, reverse mortgage review, long term care planning, estate planning, etc.
Real Estate Experts
can help you sell your home, or find a new home that better suits your needs. Realtors who want to specialize in the real estate needs of maturing Americans are earning the Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES) designation by taking courses designed and conferred by the Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council of the National Association of REALTORS®. This designation acknowledges that they took classes teaching them how to be best attuned to navigate the needs of 55-plus buyers.
Reverse Mortgages
allow homeowners 62 years of age or older to convert a portion of the equity in their primary home into cash. This can be used to supplement social security, pay medical expenses, make home improvements, take a vacation, or more. Unlike a traditional loan, repayment is not required until that home is no longer the borrower(s) primary residence. A reverse mortgage can be available regardless of income. The amount available to borrow depends on age, current interest rates, and the appraised value of the home.
Legal Advice Experts
specialize in working with seniors on their specific legal needs.
Insurance Guidance Experts
will help you evaluate different insurance products including: Long Term Care Insurance, Health Insurance, Auto Insurance, Life Insurance, Death Benefit Insurance, etc.
Home Remodeling
Senior home remodeling allows seniors to age-in-place in and makes their current residence more age-friendly. Ramps, bathroom modifications, handrails, wider doorways, chair lifts, shelf conversions and many other options are available. Senior Remodeling Tips
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
can be provided on either an outpatient basis or through an in-home service. These services can help patients recover from an injury or medical emergency.
These senior living terms are provided by Seniors Guide.
Seniors Guide is a local senior targeted magazine available in Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.
Seniors Guide, Seniors Guide At-A-Glance, Senior Industry News, Senior Informer, Senior Advocate and www.SeniorsGuideOnline.com are all published by Ross Publishing.
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