{"id":21425,"date":"2023-06-21T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21425"},"modified":"2023-06-21T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T13:13:46","slug":"dementia-can-take-a-toll-on-financial-health-as-some-families-learn-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21425","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Can Take a Toll on Financial Health, as Some Families Learn the Hard Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Sara Boden, WESA on June 20, 2023 for Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Angela Reynolds knew her mother\u2019s memory was slipping, but she didn\u2019t realize how bad things had gotten until she started to untangle her mom\u2019s finances: unpaid bills, unusual cash withdrawals, and the discovery that, oddly, the mortgage on the family home had been refinanced at a higher interest rate. <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/dementia-toll-financial-health-families-scams\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" class=\"wp-image-7499\" style=\"width: 147px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sara Boden, WESA on June 20, 2023 for Kaiser Family Foundation Angela Reynolds knew her mother\u2019s memory was slipping,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,12,21,56],"tags":[118,238,94],"class_list":["post-21425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-medical-debt","tag-dementia","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21425","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21426,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21425\/revisions\/21426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}