Trump Has Put Social Security At Serious Risk

According to Paul Krugman,  be aware that Donald Trump’s economic proposals, if enacted, could drive Social Security into bankruptcy, impoverishing many older Americans—not in the distant future, but within around six years. This would devastate seniors financially and the care management and home care industry.

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Rural Elders Living next to City Greatest Risk to Perish In LA Fires

What happens when a wildfire reaches a city?

Multiple major wildfires, fanned by powerful seasonal winds, are burning through the Los Angeles area, leaving devastation in their wake.

The Eaton fire continues to burn in the Altadena area below a National Forest, which illustrates where a city like Altadena, next to Los Angeles National Forest, is a perfect firestorm when urban and wild regions overlap.

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Sign Up for My Webinar on End of Life

In A Washington Post, this week a Post article said that Death Doulas have become a nationwide death-positive movement, in the US mirroring the traditional ritual in Mexico that many Americans also celebrate, the Day of the Dead.

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Do You Feel Guilty for Billing Your Time?

Nurses and social workers can have an ethical dilemma running a geriatric care management business and having to bill for profit.Their education and ethics teach them to give their services away.As women they are hard wired to give things away or the human race would not survive. This creates a double bind and often causes them to bill less of their time with spent with clients.

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