Archive for April 2015
Deadline looming for CalPERS long-term care policyholders
Jon Ortiz chronicles civil-service life for California state workers 04/23/2015 11:50 AM The grim questions Shirley Neill thought she’d answered 20 years ago – with a reassurance from CalPERS – are bearing down on her again. How long will I live? How much care will I need? From 1995 to 2004, Neill and about 150,000…
Read MoreCaregiver March 2015 Job Report: Caregiver Jobs and Pay Increasing Even as Overall Labor Market Slows
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 10, 2015 Cargiverlist.com, the online resource for senior care information and careers, announced today the March 2015 Caregiver Pay Survey results for professional senior caregivers. As the overall U.S. economy reported weak growth in jobs, adding just 126,000 jobs last month, ending a 12-month streak of adding more than 200,000 jobs…
Read More5 Ways to Deal With Caregiver Stress
By HALLIE LEVINE Apr 3, 2015, 3:36 AM ET We’re not called the sandwich generation for nothing. Almost a third of U.S. adults (29 percent) act as a caregiver for an ill, elderly or disabled relative, per the National Alliance for Caregiving. Of those, roughly 66 percent are female, many of them also caring for…
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