Background reading on care levels, conditions, and how the senior-care system works.
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A caregiver manages over a dozen essential duties on any given day, from bathing and grooming to meals, medications, and keeping a close watch on health. Here is what each of those jobs actually involves.
April 18, 2025
In-home care and nursing home care in Tennessee both run into the tens of thousands of dollars a year. The state offers multiple assistance programs to help manage those costs, from TennCare CHOICES long-term care to property tax relief, Medicare Savings Programs, food help, and transportation.
March 20, 2025
The 5-word memory test is a simple way to check memory in older adults: you show someone five unrelated words, then ask them to recall the words after a brief distraction. It is a screening prompt rather than a verdict. Here is how the test is run, how the validated version is scored, and why a run at the kitchen table is not something to grade yourself.
January 4, 2025
The senior-care system is dense with jargon (CMS, MDS, ADLs, IADLs, NOA), licensing acronyms, and care-level distinctions that mostly only make sense from the inside. Families researching senior care for the first time benefit from a few hours of background reading before touring a community or talking to an advisor. Our education library is the explainer track: what each care level actually means, how the system is funded, who licenses what, what kinds of conditions tend to trigger which level of care, and the basic medical vocabulary families encounter (mild cognitive impairment, vascular dementia, ADLs, IADLs, Activities of Daily Living). Read three articles here and the rest of the site starts to make sense.
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