{"id":24107,"date":"2025-03-10T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24107"},"modified":"2025-03-10T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:41:16","slug":"home-improvements-can-help-people-age-independently-but-medicare-seldom-picks-up-the-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24107","title":{"rendered":"Home improvements can help people age independently. But Medicare seldom picks up the bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Joanne Kenen &#8211; KFF Health News on March 9,2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his mid-80s, he had a stroke. Then lymphoma. Then prostate cancer. He was fatigued, isolated, not all that steady on his feet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettextra.com\/news\/nation_world\/home-improvements-can-help-people-age-independently-but-medicare-seldom-picks-up-the-bill\/article_e985791b-cd2f-5d79-b9ec-db17bb27d01c.html\">Read here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-19115\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iStock-469551631hlping-aging-parents-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iStock-469551631hlping-aging-parents-family.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iStock-469551631hlping-aging-parents-family-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iStock-469551631hlping-aging-parents-family-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iStock-469551631hlping-aging-parents-family-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joanne Kenen &#8211; KFF Health News on March 9,2025 Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time. In his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,12,200,5,6],"tags":[385,61,94],"class_list":["post-24107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cms","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-home-health-services","category-medicare-general","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24107","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=24107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24108,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24107\/revisions\/24108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}