by CDA Inc | Jun 18, 2015 | Insurance, Long Term Care, Risk Management
University Students In France Are Moving In With Senior Citizens! This headline made the news recently and it prompted me to wonder if any movement like this is occurring in the United States. All societies are facing the increasing costs of care for the aging. I...
by CDA Inc | Jun 4, 2015 | Insurance, Long Term Care, Risk Management
From the time my number 2 son could speak he shared with us all the ways in which he was not being treated fairly. His lower lip would quiver, his breathing would become labored and then, the magic words would come out: “It’s Not Fair”. Whether it was because...
by CDA Inc | May 26, 2015 | Insurance, Long Term Care, Risk Management
The man on the radio related his experiences with addiction. He described how his life had followed the same path as that of so many other Native American men. Decades of guilt and anger, emotional battles that raged through the teenage years into adulthood...
by CDA Inc | May 21, 2015 | Insurance, Long Term Care, Risk Management
Many years ago one of my friends lived through the experience of placing both of her parents into an assisted living facility a thousand miles away. I listened to her and learned from her experience as year stretched into year. I studied the problems of care from...
by CDA Inc | Apr 28, 2015 | Insurance, Long Term Care, Risk Management
Friday I went to my annual physical exam and was asked to pay a copay for the visit. I am a non-confrontational person, but for once I spoke out. I took a deep breath and asked, “So when do I get my free ‘routine physical exam’ as promised through the...
by CDA Inc | Apr 23, 2015 | Insurance, Long Term Care, Risk Management
Many years ago a woman I knew discovered she had cancer while she was pregnant. When the baby was delivered his cancer was immediately detected and his treatment was scheduled at a specialty hospital many states away. So the whole family picked up and moved out of...
