Where can I seek assistance for financial planning?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
Where can I seek assistance for financial planning?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
While people who are planning for long-term care obviously want to be very careful with how they spend any money, there are what’s called…
How may disability insurance help with paying for care?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
Disability insurance policies are income replacement policies. I had a client who had a stroke and he was not able to return to work…
What is the difference between Medicaid and Medicare?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
Medicare was designed to pay for skilled care that has a beginning and an end to restore [a person’s] function. Since dementia is typically…
What is the difference between Medicaid and Medicare?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
How important is financial planning before a dementia diagnosis?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
We all have to think about planning for long-term care as part of our overall financial plan. For many people, it is the missing…
Can rapidly progressive dementias occur at any age?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
Yes, they can occur at any age. We have some of the autoimmune causes in six-month-old babies and yet, we have autoimmune causes in…
Can rapidly progressive dementias occur at any age?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
What are the symptoms of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
I call prion disease the great mimicker because CJD, which is the predominant form of human prion disease, can look like anything. Many different…
What are the symptoms of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
How are typical cases of Alzheimer’s and other dementias similar and different from rapidly progressive dementias?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
I would think of it as a Venn diagram, where you have two circles overlapping and the overlap would be extraordinary. The symptoms alone…
What are rapidly progressive dementias?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
Why do some people with dementia progress faster than others?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021
I see [a faster decline] frequently in people with vascular dementia. When patients ask me, “How long before this progresses to the next stage?”…
Why do some people with dementia progress faster than others?
By
Nicholas Chan
| May 9th, 2021