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Comments (3)I can tell you which brand not to buy. Do not buy Acorn, bad lifts and bad service. I hear Summit may be good. Other things to consider are what each service call is going to run...average is about $250 per visit, but some companies now give a reduced rate with a maintenance plan....See MoreActivities for elderly. Ideas needed
Comments (37)What an article. I am over-whelmed at the moment. It has hit very very close to home. My Dad was in much the same condition/mental state for 6 months before he died and I was his caregiver. I moved to FL to live with Mom and Dad and take care of him. His dementia was brought on by something a pd caregiver did/gave him . She had been in their home for 1 month. She and her spouse were attempting to get my Dad to sign checks behind Mom's back. By the time Mom realized what was going on and my DB and I got there all was lost. Except for the horror and the bills the incompetent medical community that we had to deal with. My only fault with the article is his ending. There is nothing you can do personally that will hasten your own end except suicide. If you decided to do this while you are still able then so be it. But...if you wait...ah...then who will you designate to carry out your wishes. Will they ? When will be the right time ? Tomorrow...OK...what if it is a good day ? See what you are facing. Hubris ...that is what is at work . Thank you Gold for a powerful thread and roselvr for an eye opening article. And the writer, thank you. Here is a link that might be useful: Hubris...See Morecarpet removal on stairs. rustic look anyone?
Comments (16)Here is a third option. We too have the same wood stairs. I was all excited that we would be able to salvage them, but they too are just not really usable. I was planning on painting the risers like you with black stairs. Our banister is glossy black, just so you know. I found out about this a few months ago. It's more or less an oak cap you put on top of the actual stair. They came into our lowes about six months ago. I've looked at them and the quality seems great. BTW, we bought risers at Habitat for just a dollar per strip. I think it's just paintable luan like above. My husband quickly cut them down to fit. The luan covers the wide gaps on the sides. We did put small nails on the sides, which you can't see when they are punched in. The nails are painted. If you're worried, you could put some sort of trim on the sides. Maybe just a small flat trim as to not draw attention. Like you, I tend to like a lot of black. Although, I really do love the rustic stair, I don't think that it meshes well with the rest of your home. Your taste seems a little too refined. Those stairs look like it might be in a rustic california or a rustic spanish home. If you want to look a little more rustic, maybe a seagrass runner down the middle (or a wool rug that mimics seagrass). That would give the more casual look you're looking for. Unfortunately, we have put the stairs thing on hold. We are in the process of updating our kitchen. We will get the treads next year. We only did one riser to finish off the floors upstairs. :) Good luck! Kim Here is a link that might be useful: Lowes- retro tred...See MoreExpensive Ads for Senior "Aids"
Comments (24)I had written, "ChiSue, have you ever really looked at an EOB form after Medicare pays the doctor/provider? While I agree that the "amount billed" by doctors/providers can be outrageous, the amount paid by Medicare is a pittance of that amount." ChiSue responded to my post with, "Lindsey -- Thanks. I'd forgotten to include that in my mini-tirade. These vendors hook people by playing up the reimbursement. Then...whoops, the individual has a contract to pay thousands." I know that you are in an upper income bracket and it, unfortunately, makes you come across sometimes as condescending. It also causes you to post inaccurate or incomplete information in an effort to make your point. Please explain, in detail, where you got the information that an "individual has a contract to pay thousands." In the "world of Medicare," there are doctors who accept the Medicare assignment all of the time and they are referred to as "participating providers." There are other doctors who accept the Medicare assignment only for certain patients and/or for certain procedures. Folks also need to know that Medicare determines what amount they are going to pay for each and every procedure, whether it's a simple office visit or complicated surgery. Medicare will pay 80% of that predetermined amount. The patient is then responsible for paying the other 20%. The total the doctor will receive is 100% of that pittance amount that Medicare has predetermined. That is the "Medicare Assignment." (If the patient has a Medicare Supplement policy, aka a Medigap policy, that policy generally will pay the patient's 20%. I say "generally," because there are a couple of Medicare Supplement policies that either make you pay a specific amount as a deductible before the policy will pick up and pay, or else they still have the patient pay an office-visit copay. ChiSue has posted before that she and her husband have a high-deductible Medicare Supplement policy, so they have to pay something like $2,500 before their Supplement policy will pay anything.) There are also doctors who are known as nonparticipating providers. They see and treat Medicare patients and will bill Medicare, but they do not accept the Medicare-approved fee as their full fee. However, this does not mean that they can bill you a sky-high amount. Medicare has a limiting charge which, as the name implies, limits the amount a nonparticipating provider can charge a patient. As I stated before, Medicare has a predetermined amount that it will pay, and then it pays 80% of that amount. When a nonparticipating provider submits a bill to Medicare, Medicare lowers the predetermined approved amount to 95% of the approved predetermined amount for participating providers. It then pays 80% of that lower amount. Medicare allows the provider to charge the patient 115% of the lowered (95%) fee. The math works out to an end result of the patient being responsible for an extra 9.25% of the Medicare approved fee. There are other providers who have absolutely nothing at all to do with Medicare. They will not bill Medicare for you, and if you submit a bill to Medicare yourself, Medicare will not pay. Those doctors are free to charge you whatever amount they want, and you are responsible to pay it. So, if Medicare is paying anything to a provider, that means that the patient cannot end up with "a contract to pay thousands" as ChiSue has erroneously stated....See More
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