{"id":219,"date":"2010-11-02T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:41:05","slug":"caring-for-an-elderly-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2010\/11\/articles\/miscellaneous\/caring-for-an-elderly-parent\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for an Elderly Parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got behind in my blogging while I made a quick trip to North Carolina for a week of helping to care for my father.&nbsp; He is undergoing radiation for throat cancer for seven weeks, and needs help with transportation to the oncology center, help with nutrition and self care, and coordination of other doctor appointments.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortunately, his prognosis is good, and I have many siblings with wonderful spouses who can also spend a week helping to provide necessary unskilled care. I mention this very personal experience, because I just&nbsp;&nbsp;read in elder law attorney James M. O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmoreilly.com\/September-October-2010-Newsletter.pdf\">newsletter<\/a> that more than 75% of Baby Boomers are providing unpaid care to an elderly parent.&nbsp; Several of my clients have mentioned the difficulty they are having providing financial and similar care for their parents as they struggle with their work injuries and reduced income.&nbsp; This blog post is to let you know that I found the resource section of Attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmoreilly.com\">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s website <\/a>to be helpful as&nbsp;I educate myself about Medicare, VA benefits, and options for care when a family member or friend cannot help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got behind in my blogging while I made a quick trip to North Carolina for a week of helping to care for my father.&nbsp; He is undergoing radiation for throat cancer for seven weeks, and needs help with transportation to the oncology center, help with nutrition and self care, and coordination of other doctor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2010\/11\/articles\/miscellaneous\/caring-for-an-elderly-parent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caring for an Elderly Parent<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}