Health Care & Social Security

Nowadays, it seems like everybody’s living a lot longer. Medicine has greatly progressed in areas like surgeries, medicine, and even in-home health care. These medical advancements help combat physical and mental conditions, such as dementia. Currently, most Medicare plans will provide coverage for skilled in-home health care. This care is provided to patients with qualifying conditions per the discretion of your doctor. For senior citizens, conditions like Dementia are becoming an increasingly prevalent topic in health care. In 2015, there were an estimated 50 million people affected by dementia worldwide. (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2018) With such conditions, in-home health care

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Every day, over 10,000 Americans turn 65, entering an exciting stage of their life: retirement. For many, it’s an exciting prospect, one that conjures up images of kicking back their feet and enjoying the spoils of years of toil. For others, the victims of inflation, financial crises, or excessive spending, it’s a struggle to survive. Increasingly, elders are relying more and more on Social Security for their income, with SSA benefits representing around 33% of their income. Clearly, Social Security is becoming a walking cane for seniors—no pun intended—who now use a salient majority of this income for housing (SSA).

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Social Security is an anti-poverty program successfully providing financial protection for decades for the nation’s citizens. The Social Security Administration (SSA) does a lot of things, but offering housing assistance to those with disabilities is not one of them. Thankfully, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sponsors numerous programs that help vulnerable populations find and subsidize housing that meets their needs. SSA does offer the Supplement Security Income (SSI) program, for those with financial need and no work history, and the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, for those with a registered disability and a certain number

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