The Official Blog of Episcopal Retirement Services

Have you heard the news? Episcopal Retirement Services' (ERS) Bee Healthy Wellness Program has been recognized as an "Outstanding Project in the Field of Aging" from our local Association for Professionals in Aging (APA)!

Our Director of Resident & Health Services, Anthony Williams, will receive the award on our behalf at the Tristate APA's annual Awards and Holiday Luncheon on Dec. 14. Tickets for the event are available here.

When is retirement care a health care service, and when is it a hospitality service? There are, of course, aspects of both.

Episcopal Retirement Services has long pondered that question. And we keep coming back to the answer, "sometimes, and all the time."

Retirement care is sometimes health care. It's always hospitality. With service that’s personal.

Senior care isn’t a single type of care.

In fact, it represents an entire spectrum, from community-based or in-home services designed to help seniors age in place, to lifestyle-focused communities that provide older people an easier-going, worry-free retirement, to residential nursing and memory care for elderly people who can no longer safely provide for themselves.

According to experts like Forbes, one of the biggest forms of abuse that elder members of our society are experiencing these days isn't necessarily physical in nature. Forbes recently reported that a new study revealed that elderly people are swindled to the tune of over $36 billion dollars on an annual basis—more than 12 times what researchers previously thought. If you want to make sure that your elderly parent is being well taken care of all throughout their senior life, there are a few key things that you need to consider regarding how their finances are handled.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there will be over two billion people aged 60 or older, worldwide, by 2050. That's a staggering number of people who will need additional care and it represents, as the WHO noted, both a challenge and an opportunity.

In this world of escalating expense, can seniors afford to live comfortably? Senior life frees a person from the hustle that comes with maintaining a job, but it can also create financial chaos.

American healthcare is moving towards a “help yourself” mentality that encourages everyone– even seniors– to become proactive about their own health.

The new age of healthcare that has followed the Affordable Care Act has placed much of the responsibility on the individual to keep his body in the best physical shape possible so that he may avoid chronic or fatal illnesses during his senior life.  In response to this, many hospitals and other care providers have initiated prevention and wellness programs to help patients become proactive about their health.