Archived Issue: February 2010

In This Issue

Valentine's Day Contest. Win $500.

Long Term Care Insurance

Alzheimer's Validation Orientation Tips

Emeritus Senior Living's "A Lifetime of Love" Valentine's Day Contest on Facebook

Enter for your chance to win a $500 American Express gift card by sharing your love stories.

In honor of Valentine's Day, Emeritus Senior Living is holding a Facebook contest called "A Lifetime of Love." Tell us your most romantic love stories that brought two individuals together in some unlikely, zany, destined-to-fall-in-love-and-be-together-forever sort of way.

One grand prize winner will receive an American Express gift card valued at $500. Twenty additional winners will receive an American Express gift card valued at $100. All winners will be announced via Facebook on February 15, 2010.

But don't delay - because the deadline for entries is February 14, 2010.

Long Term Care Insurance

Did you know that there is a bonus to buying long term care insurance at a younger age. The yearly premium is lower and the total premium over the life of the policy is also less.

Top six reasons why you should buy long term care insurance:

• Allows you to make choices.
• Insurance will allow your spouse to keep the assets.
• Pays for professional care for the disabled spouse.
• Insurance will pay for aides to assist your children when caring for you.
• You would not burden family or friends.
• Preserves your assets.

Alzheimer's Validation Orientation Caregiver Tips

Due to changes in the brain caused by plaques and tangles, people with Alzheimer's disease experience memory loss, loss of reasoning, loss of cognitive/thinking skills and loss of judgment. Validation is a way of communicating with your loved one.

Validation means to accept or enter into their reality or world. It is important to remember that when they visit the past, they actually believe they are living in the past.

This Senior Living Answer was published on February 1, 2010.