Seniors Align With Law Enforcement
In Madison, Connecticut, a senior citizens group, takes preventive measures for health safety and crime prevention. A new program could notify emergency personnel of every senior citizen’s vital health information as well as create a formal alliance among the police force, the elderly and the local businesses in an effort to fight crime. A yellow [...]
Continue ReadingSenior move managers. What to take? What to leave?
These were the difficult questions that Valencia Peterson of Moving Solutions was helping a 65-year-old client decide, as they sorted through a Newtown Square pantry stocked with rivers of aluminum foil, bins of sugar, and dozens of cake mixes, all bought on sale. Dorothy Kupferschmidt, a single woman with arthritic knees, was downsizing from a [...]
Continue ReadingSenior Citizen Apartments Gets Funding
The Warrenton Volunteer Fire Co. has a commitment for financing to build its planned 98-unit apartment complex for low- and moderate-income senior citizens. The Virginia Housing Development Authority in June approved allocation of up to $6.83 million in federal tax credits to the fire company. Final approval should come in December, according to VHDA staff [...]
Continue ReadingLong-term Care Costs Force Middle Class Families into Poverty
A Wake up Call for Elders and Family Caregivers: Long-term Care Costs Force Middle Class Families into Poverty To help raise awareness that all but the very poor will be expected to pay their own long-term care bills, a comprehensive new web site – www.avoidmedicaid.com was launched on June 15. Dedham, MA (PRWEB) June 16, [...]
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