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HELP LINE: It’s time to learn the ‘secret’ of Hospice
I KNOW WHAT hospice is: It’s one of the unintentionally best-kept secrets in this business, but we’ll get…
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HELP LINE: Medicare offers checklist for hospitalizations
IF YOU’RE HAVING to go to the hospital for something, what’s the first thing on your mind?
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HELP LINE: Don’t panic if you don’t have new Medicare card yet
WHEN YOUR NEW Medicare card hadn’t shown up by Thanksgiving, you thought, “Oh, well … I have other…
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HELP LINE: To receive help, you need to know where to look
MANY OF YOU who have paid any attention to these columns at all for the past 950 or…
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HELP LINE: Beware: The Promise could kill you
ONE OF MY many totally unrelated and utterly fragmented theories about life on planet Earth is what I…
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HELP LINE: Remember to express love to those you love
MY BEST FRIEND and I have a large, wrought iron sign on our wall that says, “indulge.”
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HELP LINE: How do you say the unsayable ‘goodbye’?
HOW DO YOU say “goodbye,” when you can’t say goodbye?
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HELP LINE: Volunteering can be the best ‘bad time’ ever
I THINK MOST of us are familiar, directly or indirectly, with the phrase, “For a good time, call…
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HELP LINE: We fall for scams because we want to believe
I HOPE WE’RE all taking a moment to congratulate ourselves.
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HELP LINE: Tax-Aide volunteers preparing to provide help
PRESUMABLY, MOST OF us have the holidays behind us.
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HELP LINE: There are steps to making in-home care work
LET’S BEGIN TODAY by making what might or might not be an obvious observation: The vast majority of…
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HELP LINE: It’s time to make resolutions for 2019
IT’S ALMOST NEW Year’s Eve, and you know what that means:
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HELP LINE: Use Medicare to help you feel as good as you can
LAST MONTH, I went on about all the various deductibles, co-pays, etc. associated with Medicare Parts A and…
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HELP LINE: ’Tis the season to beware scammers
IN CASE ANY of us are still uncertain, after the caloric overdose we characterize as Thanksgiving, the holiday…
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HELP LINE: Here’s a letter to Dad who needs to read it
I SUPPOSE YOU’VE heard that the Social Security/Supplemental Security Income [SSI] COLA for 2019 will be 2.8 percent,…
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HELP LINE: We age because it’s our job to and to help each other
FOR REASONS THAT don’t warrant repeating, I noticed the other day that I’ve been doing this little column…