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Asian-American Elders Disadvantaged by Cultural & Lingual Barriers
While the growing Hispanic community struggles to deal with their aging parents and their cultural expectations of care, the Asian-American community is struggling with this issue as well in a slightly nuanced way. “Filial Piety” – respect for one’s elders,…
Tags: Asian-American Elders, assisted living facilities, caregivers, elder care, nursing homes
Nursing Home Care Keep Getting More Expensive
Always a costly option, nursing homes have reached a new high. Approximately $67,527 five years ago, the average price has risen to $83,950. And in the past year alone the fee jumped 4%, according to Genworth’s 2013 Cost of Care…
Tags: assisted living facilities, Home Care, home health aide, nursing homes
Defining Palliative Care
Barely half the hospitals in the USA have palliative care programs. If you aren’t sure what palliative care is, that’s part of the problem. Palliative care is a care program that includes management of pain and other debilitating symptoms and…
Tags: assisted living facilities, care program, hospice care, pain management, Palliative care
