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Supplement to Jewish News April 22, 2013
Celebrating SeniorSHaPPY, HealtHY liVing
Supplement to Jewish News April 22, 2013
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This special magazine-style
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and peek into the future.
Dear readers,Aging. Given the alternative, it’s a fact of life!
And yes, as we age, life can become more challenging in some ways: dealing with aches and pains and
physical hardships, trying to combat wrinkles, living on more limited incomes, and the inevitable loss
of people we know. But none of that means we have to stop living full, productive and contented lives.
Just look around, there are great examples of senior citizens (Will someone please come up with a more
upbeat term for ‘over 50’ ?!?) who are eking out every moment of their lives, whether they’re enjoying
retirement, returning to the workforce, volunteering, going back to school, trying new sports, interacting
with generations both younger and older, and even planning for their “futures.”
In this special section of the Jewish News, we highlight some of our Jewish community’s senior citizens
who are doing a great job of embracing their “golden years.” We also explore positive ways to approach
the aging of our loved ones (and ourselves): planning for long-term medical needs, staying healthy
through diet and exercise, and suggestions for using finely honed skills to help and teach others.
As Jews, we respect and cherish our ‘seniors’, and in their honor we would like to offer up a huge,
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Jewish senior camps retool to keep up with more active seniors—and the competition
by Debra Rubin
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Not many people
attend summer camp with their parents.
Mindelle Pierce went with her mom when
her mother was in her 90s.
They chose a two-week program for
senior adults at the Isabella Freedman
Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn.
Aside from typical camp activities such
as swimming and arts and crafts, there
were myriad specialty programming for
senior adults: lectures on health and nutri-
tion, genealogy, flowers of the Torah, and
biblical prophets, as well as trips to area
cultural activities, including the theater and
the philharmonic.
Some 80 participants ranging in age
from their 50s to 90s attended the camp.
Pierce, who is in her 60s and volun-
teers regularly at Isabella Freedman’s senior
camps, says she was drawn to the program
five years ago by the “natural beauty infused
with the spirituality that I felt while I was
there—and the fact the programming was
exceptional.”
The Isabella Freedman program is
among a number of senior camp programs
across the United States, including a hand-
ful that are geared to Jews. Yet despite the
growing population of American senior
citizens, the number of senior camps has
been dropping slightly, according to the
American Camp Association, which has 225
senior camps as members.
That has made for a challenging envi-
ronment for Jewish senior camps, too. In
September, one such camp, the Block and
Hexter Vacation Center in Pennsylvania’s
Pocono Mountains, closed due to lack of
demand. With more resorts available in
exotic locales and seniors more active than
they were a few decades ago, mountain
camps have lost some of their cachet.
“The new senior is more active and dis-
criminating in taste than the senior of prior
generations,” says Elliot Forchheimer, assis-
tant director of the New Jersey Y Camps,
which runs the Kislak Adult Center offering
sightseeing itineraries to places such as
Florida, the Poconos and Texas.
To help stem the tide, some camps have
changed or are planning changes to their
offerings in hope of attracting a new gener-
ation of older adults.
“With tweaks and changes, these pro-
grams should be able to thrive,” says Adam
Weinstein, director of the Berkshire Hills
Emanuel Camps-Adult Vacation Center in
Copake, N.Y., which offers kosher food and
Shabbat services.
“We’re looking at programs that will
also bring in a younger crowd of seniors,”
says Irene Drantch, director of the Circle
Lodge Retreat in Hopewell Junction, N.Y.,
an 85-plus-year-old facility that is affiliated
with Workmen’s Circle and draws any-
where from 25 people a week to a capacity
participation of 135 for its Yiddish Week.
At Berkshire Hills, there are plans are
to split the 10-week summer into two five-
week programs. One session will be geared
to those who have been coming for years
and aren’t seeking changes, Weinstein says.
“There’s swimming, there’s lectures,
there’s evening entertainment, there’s
buttermilk in the afternoon,” Weinstein
says, noting that some 600 campers came
this past summer—about half for the full
summer and the rest for one or two weeks.
Most were in their 70s and 80s.
The other session will be aimed at
younger seniors.
“By splitting our summer between our
traditional senior program and a program
that is more like a Jewish version of Road
Scholar, we are trying to make that tran-
sition” to younger seniors, Weinstein says,
“while still serving the guests who have
been our base.”
Pairing sightseeing with educational lec-
tures is the raison d’etre for Road Scholar,
formerly known as Elderhostel, which offers
about a dozen Jewish programs that explore
Jewish culture, history and religion. Jewish
programming has been available since the
organization was founded more than three
decades ago, and Road Scholar works with
an array of Jewish organizations, museums,
synagogues and educators, according to
Stacie Fasola, its associate vice president of
public and media relations.
Annabel and Hal Sacks of Tidewater
fame, participated in a five-day Road
Scholar program at the Peabody Institute
in Baltimore last year. Annabel wrote about
the experience in the Oct. 22, 2012 issue of
Jewish News. They had a terrific time meet-
ing new people, learning and exploring.
Read her article online at www.jewish-
newsva.org/road-scholars/.
For Judy Oppenheim of Hampden,
Conn., lectures are only part of what has
drawn her and her husband, Jerry, both
73, to Isabella Freedman for the past seven
years. They’re also taken with the physical
setting, the diverse programming, sitting
and chatting with Holocaust survivors as
well as youngsters in the facility’s children’s
camp and the many friends they have made
over the years.
“I like being back at camp as an adult,”
Oppenheim says. “I always liked it as a kid,
and now I look forward to it as an adult.”
For Inge Hershkowitz of the Bronx,
N.Y., two weeks at Berkshire Hills last
summer was a homecoming of sorts. Back
in the 1950s, she and her three sons spent
about six summers at what then was a
family resort typical of the many bungalow
colonies in the area, with her husband join-
ing them on weekends.
This year, she particularly enjoyed the
lectures on Jewish humor and outings that
included seeing Academy and Tony Award-
winner Olympia Dukakis onstage in “The
Tempest.”
“I really, really like it,” Hershkowitz, 88,
says of the camp. “I already made reserva-
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JCC brightens the lives of seniors bernie erlich
and andrea Finder Zargeby Leslie Shroyer
From Mahjong to Senior Club
to fitness, long days at the
Simon Family JCC are the
norm for Bernie Erlich and
Andrea Finder Zarge.
A New York native, Erlich moved to
Tidewater less than 10 years ago with
his wife Rhoda to be near his daughter
Amy Lefcoe, her husband Kevin, and their
children. Erlich raves about Tidewater in
general and the JCC in particular. “This
whole area is a gem, and a great place to
live,” he says. “And the JCC is a blessing. I
am thrilled about coming to the JCC every
day I walk through the doors.”
Erlich goes to the JCC on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. On Tuesdays, he visits the fit-
ness center for the elliptical machines and
a few light weights. On Thursdays after the
gym, he stays for a current events club with
about a dozen other seniors. “I look forward
to our heated political debates,” he jokes.
“It’s truly all in friendship and fun.” After he
eats lunch around noon, Erlich plays a reg-
ular Thursday game of Rummikub, which
can last several hours.
As historian for the JCC Seniors Club,
he attends a monthly meeting with about
30 other active members. Trips and enter-
tainment are planned, ailing members are
mentioned so that the club can reach out
to them, and decisions about how and
where dues should be spent are made. The
club is currently planning its annual party
on May 22, a luncheon at the JCC with a
Luau theme.
Erlich also recently joined the Yiddish
Club at the JCC. Open to all ages, this group
meets the last Thursday of each month.
Members discuss Yiddish words and phrases
and their origins, and most are accompanied
by personal stories and memories.
Andrea Finder Zarge grew up in
Norfolk, spending many hours of her youth
at the JCC on Spotswood Ave. She moved
to Delaware after attending Old Dominion
University, and recently returned after more
than 30 years to be closer to her aging
mother. Actively taking classes all over the
area from glass blowing to origami, she goes
to the JCC for fitness classes and Mahjong.
“I don’t love to work out, but I’m social,
and I know it’s good for me,” she says. “The
JCC gives me a place to work out, where I
have made some very close friends.”
Zarge diligently attends a Monday,
Wednesday and Friday water aerobics
class. On Mondays, she stays for a beginner
Mahjong class which can last until 4 pm.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Zarge takes a
Silver Sneakers cardio class in the JCC fitness
center. “I come back every day because of the
wonderful people I’ve met here,” she says.
“I can’t be thankful enough for this
JCC,” says Erlich. “I appreciate its being
here immensely.”
Andrea Finder Zarge
Bernie Erlich
jewishnewsva.org | Senior Living | April 22, 2013 | Jewish News | 37
it’s never too late to begin healthy habits
by Amy Cobb, JFS marketing and fundraising assistant
By now, most people have not only given up on their New Year’s resolutions,
they’ve also forgotten what they were in the first place. Still, the registered
nurses from Jewish Family Service’s Home Health team advise that’s it’s never
too late to begin improving your health. Adults, especially those over the age of
65, can greatly benefit from making healthy changes – especially those that help prevent
illness and injury.
Here are the nurses’ favorite tips to keep you feeling young and vibrant. Ready, set...go!
Get moving, but don’t overdo it! Susan Riggs, RN, says, “I started a walking program last summer and
went at it full-force. Next thing I knew, I had hurt my knee and I couldn’t
exercise for a while. Lesson learned: Ease your way into exercising if you
haven’t done it in a while.”
Just do it! Exercise doesn’t have to be exhausting, and it certainly doesn’t have to be
so strenuous that it feels like work. Loydett Anderson, RN, finds that it
can be something as simple as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. In
fact, she takes the stairs every opportunity she gets. “It’s all about self-mo-
tivation,” she says. “You just have to get moving. I recommend walking briskly for at least
15 minutes every day.”
Older adults are increasingly looking to classes such as yoga and tai chi to not only
increase physical health, but to meet people and widen their social circles. Other activities,
like local walking clubs, can be found at many senior organizations and community centers.
Smooth(ie) Operator!Lucy Cardon, RN, loves smoothies. “The best way to get nutrition is from
food,” says Cardon, “and by consuming a healthful smoothie every day
you are getting most of your nutrition in one proven delicious dosage.”
Consuming raw fruits and vegetables in a smoothie every day will also give
you plenty of natural fiber to ensure excellent digestion and help empower your immune
system to protect you from illness.
Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate!Your skin is the largest organ in the body, so it’s very important to keep it
hydrated. Linda Badgley, RN, says, “Many older adults tend to have dry,
itchy skin. Because older people have thinner skin, scratching can cause
bleeding that may lead to infection.” The best ways to keep your skin
hydrated? Drink lots of water and apply moisturizing lotion generously every day.
Badgley also recommends that older adults eat more protein. A lack of protein can
increase your risk for injury during exercise and it is particularly important when you
have a wound that is healing. Your body uses the amino acids from protein-rich foods to
maintain and rebuild your body’s cells. Lean meats, eggs and dairy products are excellent
protein sources; good vegetarian options include nuts and seeds, soy products and whole-
grain foods. Most women need about 46 grams of protein per day, while most men need
about 56 grams per day.
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Balance is key!Sondra Pietrzak, RN, recommends a balanced diet for older adults. “Eating
a healthy diet can help keep your body strong and can help lower your
risk for disease,” says Pietrzak. “But as you get older, it can be harder to eat
in healthy ways. If you have health problems or can’t be active, you may
not feel as hungry as you used to. You may not plan and make meals as often. If you have
trouble preparing meals for yourself, consider the JFS Meals on Wheels program. Contact
them at 757-321-2227. She also encourages older adults to have regular check-ups.
Manage pain with exerciseGale Garner, RN, BSN, MA, knows from experience how it feels to be in pain.
For the past 20 years, she has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and that’s
why she goes swimming every day. “My doctor suggested that I keep moving
in water. I get up every morning at 5:00 to go swimming, and believe me, it
helps,” says Garner. “It’s important to keep moving.” As a mental health nurse, she says this
not only helps lessen pain, but it also helps lessen depression.
Make sure your home is safeLinda Levy, RN, often sees patients who have fallen in their home. “Most
falls in the home can be prevented with just a few preventative measures,”
says Levy. She suggests removing scatter rugs and securing larger rugs
with non-skid tape. Also remove any clutter and cords on the floor. Make
sure the home is well-lit and install hand rails on stairways if necessary. And lastly, install
an electronic emergency response system.
38 | Jewish News | April 22, 2013 | Senior Living | jewishnewsva.org
Senior finds herself right at home at ronald MacDonald
by Laine M. Rutherford
Photo by Laine M. Rutherford
On the large tidy desk
in the office area of
the Ronald McDonald
House in Norfolk, sits
a brass nameplate iden-
tifying the bright eyed, cheery woman who
greets guests as they enter the building:
Bess Finder. Head Volunteer.
“They gave this to me for my 90th birth-
day,” says Finder, holding the nameplate in
front of her. “It’s not official, of course, but
I do like it.”
Finder is a consistent presence at the
17-bedroom, three-story residence on
Colley Ave. Every Monday she arrives to
volunteer in the office just to the left of
the front door, or in whatever capacity the
administrators there need.
“I answer the phone, answer the door.
I show people around, take them to their
rooms and answer any questions they may
have,” Finders says. “Not a lot really.”
While Finder is modest about her duties,
the administrators of the Ronald McDonald
House Charities of Norfolk are effusive in
their praise of her, which is why they were
prompted to present her the nameplate.
“Bess is an ambassador of goodwill,”
says Elyse Brown, the home’s executive
director. “She is a very special person, who
makes other people feel special as soon as
they come in the door, and she’s a familiar
face to the families that stay here and to the
members of our board.”
House manager Vickie Kennedy says
she and Brown can rely on Finder on any
day of the week, not just on the scheduled
Monday volunteer time.
“She’ll come in any time we need her,
and will fill in when Elyse or I take time
off or can’t be here,” says Kennedy. “She’s
also an ambassador for us at her apartment
building, getting other people where she
lives to volunteer here, too.”
“And, she’s our nurse, too,” Brown adds.
“We’re a good team.”
Finder lives steps away, in an apart-
ment complex next door and has been
volunteering at the Ronald McDonald
House for 12 years.
“One day, I came over to see if they
needed help, and I’ve been here ever since,”
she says.
The great-grandmother of four is happy
to have a place she can put her energies. For
50 years, Finder worked as a private-duty
nurse, and before that was a nurse in the
U.S. Army.
A gifted storyteller, Finder tells how she
met her husband, Ted, a native Austrian
who survived the Holocaust by escaping
from a concentration camp and who went
on to become a decorated U.S. Army war
hero. The two moved to Norfolk in 1955
and she has lived here ever since, raising
three children and caring for her husband
and others. After a full life that he called
miraculous, Ted passed away in 2000. (His
story is chronicled in the UJFT Holocaust
Commission book: To Life.)
“Ted actually was my first patient as a nurse
in the Army,” Finder says. “I was told to do
a few things—we didn’t do that much back
then, really, so I walked up to Ted’s bed, shook
him to wake him up and told him I needed to
take his temperature. He told me that was no
way to wake a soldier. He said a soldier should
always be woken up with a kiss!”
Finder laughs as she remembers her
Bess Finder.
jewishnewsva.org | Senior Living | April 22, 2013 | Jewish News | 39
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husband and can regale guests with these
stories and more, providing a welcome
respite for families dealing with ill children.
Norfolk’s Ronald McDonald House was
established to be a home away from home
for families wanting to be near their child,
21 years old or younger, who is receiving
medical care or treatment at an area facility.
Families can stay as long as their chil-
dren are receiving help in establishments
such as the Children’s Hospital of The
King’s Daughters and Sentara Norfolk
General Hospital, both within walking dis-
tance, as well as The Pines, St. Mary’s
Home for Disabled Children and the Barry
Robinson Center.
There is no cost to families; the home
is stocked with typical household goods,
whether in the kitchen cupboards, the
library or the laundry room, all received
through donations. The operating budget
is supported by the area’s owner/operated
McDonald’s restaurants.
“This is a wonderful place for people in
dire need of comfort,” Finder says. “If you
can’t be at home and your child is sick, it’s
nice to be able to not have to worry about
where you’re going to sleep, what you’re
going to eat or feed your other children,
and not think about how you’re going to
pay for it all.”
Finder is no stranger to helping others
or volunteering. From a young age, she
saw—and helped—her mother do what she
could to improve the life of others.
“My mother used to get up at five in the
morning to collect money for B’nai Brith
or Hadassah, and she would bring people
to the house who had nowhere else to go,”
Finder says. “We always shared what little
we had with others. I grew up with it. It’s
part of living for me.”
On days when Finder is not at the
Ronald McDonald House the nameplate
is still on the desk, a sight that makes
Brown, Kennedy and Finder comfortable
and happy.
“I have friends that envy me because I
have a place to go,” says Finder. “I feel I’ve
been blessed by a lot of good health, and,
so, as long as I can, and as long as they let
me, I’ll keep on coming over.”
40 | Jewish News | April 22, 2013 | Senior Living | jewishnewsva.org
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Sherrill Hurwitz’ retirement takes a leap into literacy
by Laine M. Rutherford
After 30 years employed as
a child protective service
social worker and a counsel-
or in Norfolk Public Schools,
Sherrill Hurwitz earned some downtime
when she retired five years ago.
She didn’t take it.
Instead, Hurwitz, a longtime, former
Sunday School teacher at Ohef Sholom
Temple and a current member of
Congregation Beth El, jumped into a project
that puts books into the hands of children.
And not just any children, but children
who visit—for whatever reason—the Norfolk
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
“Through my work with the Norfolk
Department of Social Services, I knew
a lot of judges. They were very upset
because they were seeing so many kids in
their courts who couldn’t read, or could
only read at a sixth grade level—at best,”
Hurwitz, 62, says.
Hurwitz was approached by Judge
Jerrauld Jones, a juvenile court judge, who
asked if she could help with a reading pro-
gram, at the time under the auspices of the
former Friends of the Court group.
Knowing, through her professional
experience, that there was a need to help
children read, Hurwitz started the Leap
into Literacy program. Her goal is to give
every child a book to inspire a love of read-
ing and learning. Both, she says, are vitally
important.
Almost every morning Hurwitz can be
found in the Juvenile Court building, either
in the waiting area outside the courtroom
or in the courtroom itself. She hands out
books, reads to children, and dispenses
advice to parents, to their children and to
young people facing detention or jail time.
“Sometimes there are parents who
have to bring their children to court with
them because they don’t have a babysitter.
Sometimes, children are there who are in
trouble themselves,” Hurwitz says. “Either
they’re waiting for hours for their cases to
be heard, or they’re being disruptive, or the
judge wants them removed because of what’s
being discussed. That’s when I’ll put a book
in their hands and say, ‘This is for you.’”
After five years of volunteering, Hurwitz
is still passionate about the program.
“You never know who this helps. People
will come up to me saying they remember Sherrill Hurwitz
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seemed the perfect venue.
It appears that the more often children
realize the importance of performing a mitz-
vah for the aged, or anyone for that matter,
the better adults they become.
The goal is to have “The Mitzvah Club”
once a quarter. After the first visit, it was
decided to have a much more structured
two-hour visit. The club always starts with
snacks for the kids and then breaks into age
appropriate groups. Some kids will play board games with the residents, some will sing,
while some will have one on one visits.
The residents light up when they see the children arrive. It truly is a mitzvah.
me because I gave them a book when they
were little, and there are even kids I’ve
worked with in the past—who have since
done terrible crimes—who people will tell
me ask about me, and say ‘they want you to
bring them a book.’”
Leap into Literacy is an entirely vol-
unteer operation that right now is a
one-woman operation. Other than an office
provided at the courthouse, Hurwitz asks
for, collects, and distributes books without
monetary compensation. In the future, she
says she may seek to qualify as a tax-de-
ductible organization, but the effort seems
overwhelming, so, for now, she relies on the
kindness of community donations.
“My number one donor is Blessed
Sacrament Church in Norfolk. The reverend
there asks for books for me every Sunday
Mass, and every few months ladies from the
church bring them to me,” Hurwitz says.
“It would be good if the Jewish commu-
nity would help, too. If they look in their
closets, I’m sure they would find a lot of
books that a child would like to have—I
know, I’ve met children who have never
owned their own book in their life. And
then I put one in their hands and tell them
it’s theirs to keep. You should hear them
yell after that, ‘Mom, mom. I’ve got my own
library!’”
Hurwitz thinks every child should own
a copy of Goodnight Moon and The Little
Engine that Could, and, like that last book,
she keeps moving forward, pushing to meet
that goal.
While Hurwitz provides books, maga-
zines and other reading material for children
of all ages (and adults in the waiting room
as well), she is primarily looking for books
on a third grade reading level or below.
They don’t have to be new, she says, gently
used are welcome, too.
To donate books or find out more about
Leap into Literacy, contact Sherrill Hurwitz
at 757-664-7628.
Francis Smithe has fun with a HAT student.
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getting Past the Mythsby Sally B. Kocen, CLTC
Many of us may have
had to face a long-term
care situation, most
often as caregivers
for an elderly family
member who may no longer be able to live
independently. If you have experienced
long-term care first-hand, you know how
difficult it can be from a physical, emotion-
al, and financial point of view. But if you’re
like most people, you may not have a plan
in place for your own possible long-term
care needs.
This lack of planning isn’t really surpris-
ing. When you’re busy building your career
and raising a family, it’s hard to imagine a
time when you may need help with some
of the most basic activities of daily living,
like eating or bathing. As a result, it’s easy
to deny the possibility that you may need
long-term care at some point in your life.
Unfortunately, accidents or illnesses can
strike at any age. In fact, 41% of Americans
who need long-term care are under the
age of 65. (Urban Institute analysis of US
Census Bureau’s National Health Interview
survey, 2009 and American Community
survey, 2010.) And, 70% of people who
reach age 65 will require some period of
ongoing assistance or supervision, due to
physical or cognitive impairment. (U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services,
National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care
Information, accessed September 25, 2009.)
Unfortunately, long-term care doesn’t
come cheap and costs will continue to rise.
According to the John Hancock 2011 Cost
of Care Survey, the national average cost
of a nursing home is now about $235 a
day or $85,775 a year, for a private room.
And, depending on where you live, costs
could be higher. Home health care is less
expensive but can still present a financial
challenge, with a national average cost of
about $31,200 per year, for six hours of
care, five days a week. If you don’t need
care for another 20 to 30 years, you can
expect to pay significantly more, particu-
larly if you need care for a number of years.
Not many people are able to assume these
costs without a significant impact to their
lifestyle or savings.
That’s why it’s so important to have a
plan in place. The first step in creating a
practical plan is to get past some common
myths surrounding long-term care, and to
familiarize yourself with the facts—espe-
cially when it comes to paying for care.
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Myth #1 “The government will
take care of me.”The most common myth is that the govern-
ment will pay your bills, but Medicare and
Medicaid are not resources you can neces-
sarily depend on when it comes to funding
long-term care expenses. Medicare is only
for people over age 65 and is not intended
to cover debilitating disorders that may
result in the need for true long-term care
beyond 100 days. Medicaid does provide
long-term care benefits, but you may have
to spend down your savings and assets con-
siderably in order to be eligible, which may
make it an unattractive option if you have a
healthy spouse or wish to leave a legacy for
your loved ones. And then of course, there
is the future of these programs to consider,
in light of the ballooning federal deficit.
Myth #2“I’m already covered”
Myth number two is that long-term care
expenses are covered by your employer’s
medical or disability benefits. That simply
isn’t the case. Medical benefits are designed
to pay for acute medical conditions that
you will recover from, like a broken leg
or pneumonia. Your disability insurance is
meant to replace the income you lose when
you can’t work due to illness or accident,
without anything extra designated to pay
for your care needs.
Myth #3“My children will take care of me.”
Myth number three is that you don’t have to
worry about long-term care costs, because
your children will take care of you. This
might have been a reasonable assumption
years ago, but nowadays your children
may live too far away to be able to help
or they may have work and child-rearing
responsibilities. Loved ones who are willing
to assume responsibility for your care, may
find that it has a huge impact on their lives
and you may not wish to place this kind of
burden on them.
Planning ahead is
easyThe good news in all of this is that a long-
term care event can be very manageable if
you plan ahead. To get started, you may wish
to consider the purchase of long-term care
(LTC) insurance. The coverage is designed
to pay for care in a variety of settings, from
your own home to a nursing home setting.
The premiums for the coverage are far less
than the amount you would have to pay for
your care, should you ever need it.
Many people start considering this insur-
ance coverage in their late forties and early
fifties. This is a good idea for a couple of
reasons. First, you must be in good health
to be accepted for coverage. If you wait to
apply and your health changes you may not
be able to purchase a policy. Second, LTC
premiums are based on your age when you
buy the insurance, so the younger you are,
the lower your premiums.
To find the LTC insurance coverage
that’s right for you, contact an insurance
agent or financial planner. As you start
comparing policies, be sure to ask questions
about the carrier. Since you may not need
the coverage for many years, you want to
be sure that the carrier is well-established,
with at least 10 years of experience with
LTC insurance, as well as financially stable.
Once you have a policy in place, if you ever
need care, you will be able to help protect
your assets, maintain your independence,
and receive the kind of care you deserve.
RESOURCES
To find out the cost of long-term care in
your area, visit the interactive Cost of Care
map at www.johnhancockltc.com.
The information provided above is the
opinion of the author and does not represent
the opinions of the insurance companies whose
products he/she markets.
The long-term care insurance policy
describes coverages under the policy, exclusions
and limitations, what you must do to keep your
policy in force, and what would cause your
policy to be discontinued.
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