The Long Term Care Review by Duane Lipham, CLTC

The average cost of long term care in the United States across all services categories was $72,240 in 2004, according to research recently released by Genworth Financial. Costs in urban areas were 20 percent higher than in nonurban areas, according to the study.
In urban areas of certain states-such as New York, California, and Minnesota–the cost […]

Keeping dementia or Alzheimer’s patients out of a nursing home for as long as possible appears to prolong their lives. That’s the finding of a newly published study from Case Western Reserve University ’s Memory and Aging Center . Scientists there found institutionalized dementia patients are twice or three times as likely to die following […]