For those of you with experience in marketing and sales within the elder care industry, this is a fantastic opportunity to apply your skills with an innovative company. Senior Approved Services is the first and only company of its kind, nationwide

(PRWEB) April 20, 2005 — “We received nearly 3,000 phone calls from seniors and their family caregivers in the past twelve months searching for elder care services that were Certified Senior Approved”, states Barbara Mascio, founder of Senior Approved Services. “Clearly we did not have nearly the amount of services within our network to assist these families.”

Senior Approved Services provides a one-call solution for seniors that are in need of anything from a handy man service to assisted living and everything in between. They do not charge a fee to the senior for this service.

“The push now (in our development), is to invite businesses to apply for Certification as a Senior Approved Service. We have clearly proven that our service is in demand by consumers of elder care services”, says Ms. Mascio. See http://www.qualityeldercare.com/providers

The telecommuting position offers full training and ongoing support from the Cleveland Ohio office. You may work full or part time from your home office and all materials are provided to you at no fee.

“Tracking our inquiry calls over the past twelve months, we know we need associates in Ohio, California, Illinois, Idaho, New York, Florida, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Colorado, … actually every state in the US, but especially these particular states,” offers Ms. Mascio.

According to the web page, describing this offer (http://www.qualityeldercare.com/employ) experience is not as important as your commitment to advocating for all seniors to receive excellent care.

For those of you with experience in marketing and sales within the elder care business, this is a fantastic opportunity to apply your skills with an innovative company. Senior Approved Services is the first and only company of its kind, nationwide.

The Certification is dependent on the results of the industrys first consumer-driven survey process. You will meet with business owners that offer products, resources or services to the elder population and educate these owners of this unique opportunity.

You may speak with alternative health practitioners, home care companies, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, handy man services, maids, elder-law attorneys, basically anyone currently serving the senior citizen population or perhaps wants to.

Barbara asks that before you apply, please read both web sites first. http://www.qualityeldercare.com and http://www.seniorsapprove.com If you believe that you can earnestly represent the company; you may fax your resume to 216-883-3159.

Senior care benefits are widely accessible today and we should do everything in our power to ensure that those most in need actually benefit from the plans available and the funding assistance offered.

Anyone with more than $500,000 in home equity cannot receive long term care benefits from Medicaid. Additionally, one will be penalized if they have given any type of gift within the last five years (the look-back period was previously three years). The gifts taken into account include college tuition for grandchildren, emergency help for family, Christmas, birthday, wedding and graduation presents, charitable and church donations. In other words, Congress is attempting to insure that the only people who use Medicaid for long term care will be those that normally dont have enough money to give gifts anyway. Use caution making gifts or donations as they will penalize your ability to obtain Medicaid benefits for long term care for the next 5 years. This senior insurance program will no longer be available to many.

The new law starts the penalty period when the senior applies for Medicaid, not when the gift is given. For example, if Mrs. Jones gave a $40,000 donation four years ago (within the five year look-back period) and if Medicaid needs to pay a local long term care facility $4,000 a month, then Medicaid will not make any payments for 10 months. In other words, Medicaid penalizes assistance for the value of the gift. Even if Mrs. Jones is now broke, Medicaid will not provide support until she has been in a long term care facility for 10 months.

Also be aware that nearly every state is tightening their implementation of the general Medicaid rules. Do not automatically assume that an annuity is an exempt asset or that the residence cannot be attach ed for recovery. These rules are in flux and favor the state, so you must maintain contact with your state agency that administers Medicaid or an Elder Law attorney.

So what should the average senior do? Middle income and wealthy seniors no longer have a substitute for long term care insurance. They cannot rely on the government as their supplier of senior insurance. Of the three choices that have been available for dealing with long term care: a) self-insurance, b) private long term care insurance, c) position assets to collect Medicaid, the list is now down to two options: a) self-insure or b) private long term care insurance. In other words, if youve delay ed buying long term care insurance thinking that you had the government as a safety net, that safety net is now gone.

Note that Medicaid was never a good option anyway. Someone with private long term care insurance that can pay ‘full fare’ for long term care gets a nice sunny private room with big windows. The senior on Medicaid gets shoved in an interior room with two other people, no windows. As much as this is illegal or people want to deny it happens, as stat ed by the National Senior Citizens Law Center: ‘Many common nursing home practices are illegal. For example, although the Federal Nursing Home Reform Law requires that all residents receive high-quality care, many nursing homes provide lesser care to residents whose care is paid through Medicaid.’

Why dont seniors just get private long term care insurance? The most common reason is the expense. But its a bad excuse because an experienced financial advisor can show you how to keep the cost down or make a one time payment rather than annual payments (using an immediate annuity or a ‘combo policy,’ its possible to make one single deposit and avoid annual payments). In some states, insurance companies can provide a return-of-premium option. With that option, if you never use the policy, your heirs get all of your premiums return ed. But dont delay. One negative comment in your medical records can preclude you from ever getting insured so get the coverage now.

Keeping The Elderly Physically As Well As Mentally Fit Helps

By planning home senior care well in advance, it will help to save you much money as well as time and it will also allow you to take into account everything that is needed to take care of seniors. No doubt, each senior’s profiles and needs will vary and adults need different types of home senior care and given the fact that Americans are now living longer than at any time before; the need to adequately provide for the care of seniors is all the more imperative.

Seek Professional Help

The good news is that there are many professional outfits out there that have well qualified professionals that can take care of all the home senior care needs for you and who understand as well as promote them living in a physical as well as mentally active state and thus promotes a healthy lifestyle for them which means that they can expect to live longer as well.

The fact is that it has been found that by frequently participating in stimulating activities; seniors would be forty-seven percent less likely to become victims of Alzheimer’s disease as compared to those that live sedentary lifestyles. This means that good home senior care should ensures that the elderly are kept active and their minds too should remain active which will slow the rate at which they will lose their mental faculties.

If you make use of professional services for home senior care, you will get the benefit of their understanding the findings of research and thus follow certain beneficial steps to make living life at an advanced stage more bearable. It means that, for example, when the elderly are made to exercise their minds, they can then learn new activities, play memory games, read novels as well as remain social beings.

Good home senior care should also ensures that the elderly are made to stay physically active which will help promote better flow of blood in their bodies and to the brain where it would promote growth of new brain cells, which reduces the risk of their developing dementia-related ailments. Also, becoming physically active may only require that they do nothing more than get up unassisted from a chair rather than depend on a cane or even a walker.

Also, better home senior care means getting the seniors to perform endurance exercises that will help in increasing their heart rate, and by doing strength training it will help build up muscles as well as give seniors the opportunity to remain more active as well as benefits from increased metabolism which will keep weight as well as blood pressure stable.

By following these tips with regard to proper home senior care, you can ensure that your elderly will live a better life and also enjoy their later years in life.

Senior housing costs can be incredibly expensive, and this is where a matter such as grants for senior housing comes into play. Grants for senior housing are basically loans of money that you are given to pay for your senior housing costs but which you do not have to pay back.

The First Step

If you are interested in getting grants for senior housing, there are a few steps you are going to have to take. The first is to speak to a representative at your bank. They are going to get started by making you a bit more educated on the matter. They will then discuss with you the different options that you have available, and help you to choose the grants for senior housing that are going to be best suited to you and your needs.

U.S. Department for Senior Housing

There are actually a few different organizations that offer grants for senior housing, one being the U.S. Department for Senior Housing. They are an organization that awards grants to organizations and groups through a competitive process.

All grants for senior housing offered by this organization go through the Grants Management Center which is an internal service organization within the Office of Public and Indian Housing. Their goal is to provide efficient, timely and accurate methods for the processing, reviewing and awarding of grants.

How to Get Your Grant

There are certain ways to go about actually getting your grant. You first need to define your needs, and a request for grant funding must be stated in terms of need. Once you have decided your needs then it is then going to be necessary for you to decide if a grant is even going to be the best way for you to meet that need.

Whether you are going for grants for senior housing or any other type of grant, it is important for you to know that grants often come with strings attached. Therefore you need to decide whether you are prepared for these strings and whether the grant is going to fit your mandate.

It is really important that you have your needs taken care of when you are a senior citizen and you can get this through grants. There are so many more issues and finances that you need to work about at this stage in your life. It is just important that you take the time to find the right center or organization to go through for your grant.

They are one of the largest providers of short-term and long-term health care services in the United States. Through their affiliated entities, theye provide services through skilled nursing facilities in several states.

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Sava Senior Care is of the largest providers of short-term and long-term health care services in the United States. Through Sava Senior Care affiliated entities, they will provide services through skilled nursing facilities in several states. They are committed to providing compassionate, family-oriented short-term and long-term care.
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