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change the channel, delete the email, toss • Know what your actual cash
that paper mail with the return address out-of-pocket maximum will be
to the “Response Processing Center” into per provider visit or prescription

the recycling bin or shred it. Remember refill. Understand what your

Social Security and Medicare will never financial responsibilities will be
call you or send you solicitations to buy and analyze the cost of Advantage
something. vs. the cost of Original Medicare
over a one-year period. Find
Open enrollment also means a plethora
out how much you will actually
of advertising from Medicare Advantage ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY
be paying for each provider
plans. Remember that one must still
visit, medical service, and drug ĂŝůLJ ĐƟǀŝƟĞƐ
pay the Medicare part B premium each
before you reach your out-of- RN on Call
month (which is jumping to $157.70 for
pocket maximum per year.
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premium, if any. Each Advantage On another note: Our fall session ^ŶĂĐŬƐ Θ ĞǀĞƌĂŐĞƐ
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prescription drug coverages, some plans dates and times. We have an exercise WŽƐƚͲƌĞŚĂďŝůŝƚĂƟŽŶ WĂƌƚŶĞƌƐŚŝƉƐ
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Healthy Nutrition and Health Education

The three key factors to consider when presentations. Blood Pressure screenings www.arcadia-living.com
thinking about dropping Original are once a month with Anne Clucas.
Medicare, which includes dropping your Lunch is served Monday, Wednesday Arcadia of Denton
701 S. 5th Ave
Medicare supplemental plan and your and Friday at Noon as well as Tuesday (Formerly Gables at Caroline)
part “D” coverage, to sign up with any & Thursday’s at 11:30 am for $2.50.
Advantage plan are as follows: Come Home to Arcadia
Come join us for lunch! Please call
• Are your current Doctors/ Jennifer Acree or Geraldine Warner at Caregiver’s month in 1997. Two areas
providers in the Advantage plans 410-479-2535 for any questions on the of awareness unquestionably associated
network? Call your doctors and classes listed above and feel free to stop when one is familiar with either topic.
ask if they accept the Advantage by the center to pick up our Monthly
plan. If not, are you willing to Calendar, Newsletter and Menus. Some While you are reading this you are
change doctors? How far are you dates are subject to change, questions possibly thinking of someone you
willing to travel to in-network about upcoming classes or craft s please know personally who is affected by
doctors who do accept that contact the center!!! Alzheimer’s disease or a family caregiver.
particular Advantage plan? Alzheimer’s is a growing disease; 5.7
Once you locate in network HAPPY THANKSGIVING! million Americans are living with
providers who you are willing Medical Adult Alzheimer’s or other dementias. Th eir
to travel to, be sure to Call the family caregivers provided an estimate
in-network doctors personally Day Care of 18.4 Billion hours of care valued at
to verify that they are accepting over $ 232 Billion. Every 65 seconds
new Advantage patients. someone in the United States develops
by Carole Friend LMSW
• Does the plan off er prescription the disease. Therefore, the time it has
drug coverage? If so, are all your Happy November! taken you to read these statistics from
Prescription Drugs in network November is commonly thought of as ALZ.ORG someone in the US developed
and therefore covered by the a month of Thanksgiving, pumpkin the disease.
plan? If not, are you willing to pie and football. At Medical Adult Day Become aware; awareness develops
pay full price for the medication? Care we think of November as National interest and concern, it also creates
Find out what the full price of Alzheimer’s and Family Caregiver’s public attention and legislative strategies.
your medications are. If they Awareness month. In 1983 president Moreover, awareness promotes the
prove to be unaff ordable, are Ronald Reagan designated November conversations of involvement on
you willing to ask the doctor to as Alzheimer’s Awareness month while a personal level, which is when an
change your medication to suite President Bill Clinton fi rst designated individual’s question becomes, “What
the Advantage drug formulary?
November as National Family can I do to help”.
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