Caregiver & Family Support

A dedicated Medicare visit, billed under its own code, evaluates memory and judgment in depth and produces a written plan your caregiver can use.

Medicare’s GUIDE Model pairs a dementia care navigator with up to $2,500 a year in respite reimbursement, but only through your loved one’s own participating doctor.

An adult daughter can spend one afternoon calling a Medicaid caseworker, a VA caregiver coordinator, and an insurance claims line, and get three completely different answers about getting paid.

Leaving the workforce to care for a parent can permanently lower your own future Social Security check. Here is the math behind it, and what does and does not offset it.

A hospital can legally refuse to tell a caregiver anything if the wrong form is on file. Three separate documents cover three separate kinds of authority.

Raising a grandchild full-time doesn’t automatically add them to a grandparent’s Social Security record – a specific legal dependency test decides it, and most grandparent caregivers have never heard of it.

When Diane Klein’s father got a letter warning his Medicare Advantage drug costs would jump to $1,860 next year, she found a free, federally funded counselor who would not try to sell him anything new.

Denise’s mother could still hold a conversation, but she couldn’t remember to move her Social Security deposit into the account her landlord accepted. Here’s how Denise became her payee, and what the job actually requires every year after.

Some states let an adult child become their Medicaid-eligible parent’s paid, trained caregiver – a different benefit entirely from the once-a-year caregiver tax credit.

A daughter working full-time still needs someone watching her father from 8 to 5. Adult day care can fill that gap, and several programs help cover the bill.