{"id":16373,"date":"2020-07-01T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16373"},"modified":"2020-07-01T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T12:44:26","slug":"alzheimers-disease-medicare-and-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16373","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, Medicare and what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in three seniors dies from Alzheimer\u2019s disease or another dementia according to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association.\u00a0 Although every person with Alzheimer\u2019s experiences the disease differently, but people tend to experience similar trajectory form the beginning of the illness to its end.\u00a0 The precise number of stages of Alzheimer\u2019s is somewhat arbitrary, but some experts use a most common system that breaks it down into seven stages. So how does Medicare cover the treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s?\u00a0 The attached article looks at the seven stages and what Medicare will pay and not pay for.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/money\/business\/2020\/07\/01\/alzheimers-and-medicare-what-covered-and-what-not-jerold-johnson\/3265979001\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7919\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-1024x663.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in three seniors dies from Alzheimer\u2019s disease or another dementia according to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association.\u00a0 Although every person with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16374,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions\/16374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}