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Medicare must cover skilled care and therapy when they are “necessary to maintain the patient’s current condition or prevent or slow further deterioration.”

Not many clients are willing to face their own mortality or the prospect of one day relying on family members or professional caregivers for help with grooming, hygiene and other basic everyday activities.

Recommendations to coordinate optimal end-of-life care.

Careers in medicine have taught them the limits of treatment and the need to plan for the end.

Some Medicare beneficiaries would face higher prescription drug costs under President Donald Trump’s budget even as the sickest patients save thousands of dollars, a complex trade-off that may make it harder to sell Congress on the plan in an election year.

Several items that everybody seems to be overlooking in the recent budget deal signed by President Trump are potentially-significant changes to how Medicare is administered

Seemingly overnight, big changes to Medicare morphed from being an item on various congressional wish lists into reality as part of last week’s budget deal. Here’s what to watch for.

A new estimate may convince you to work forever—if you can.

Should today’s 70-year-old American be considered “old?” How do you define that term these days?

A cancer diagnosis can affect estate and financial planning