By preplanning, you are relieving your family of having to make important financial decisions during a period of great stress and emotion,” says Abel Chavez, of Callahan-Edfast Mortuary, “At this time, many loved ones may not be thinking clearly, and many, quite frankly, just overspend.” Preneed services allow someone to meet with counselors in [...]
2012 is an important year for people planning their estates. Changes in the law are coming at us fast and furious from both the Colorado legislature and from Congress. For example, $5,000,000 is exempt from federal gift and estate taxes. For a married couple up to $10,000,000 can be exempt. For wealthy clients this is [...]
Special to the Business Times There are currently 43.5 million Americans caring for a relative over the age of 50, according to the Family Caregiver Alliance. Many of these caregivers are over the age of 50 themselves. Approximately 10,000 baby boomers hit the age of 65 each day becoming both caregivers and those in need [...]
Special to the Business Times from Mesa County With the aging of baby boomers, the demand for long term care programs, and the challenge to fund those programs, will continue to grow requiring creative and effective methods of delivering services in a cost effective way, to those in need. Mesa County, Colorado, implemented a project [...]
Local hospitals use technology, customer service and quality to give their patients the best care available across the region and state. By Craig Hall The Grand Valley has always been known for tackling issues locally, rather than waiting for national mandates or solutions. The issues of our nation’s healthcare concerns are no different. Grand Valley [...]
Special to The Business Times Hilltop Home Care announces the expansion of their in-home care services to the community. For over 26 years Hilltop Home Care has been providing comprehensive and compassionate in-home care to seniors and brain-injured adults through their residential and non-residential programs. They are now bringing this experience to those in the [...]
Jacob Swinn was back home coaching his old swim club in Oregon, while at the same time looking for a job that would fulfill his desire to be coach and be involved in aquatics, when the perfect job offer bought him Colorado Mesa University. And now Jacob finds himself in charge of the university’s swim [...]
You see the term used all the time, “For lease, 2,500 sq ft. class A office space…” But what does that really mean? When you Google “Class A” an interesting list pops up describing Class A as everything from a portion of our airspace in pilot terms, to a lower level of minor league baseball, [...]
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Founder of what is affectionately called the “God Squad” helps local businessmen network with God first. I think it is very unique to find a group of business guys willing to give up their early Friday mornings to come and talk about spiritual things,” says Scott Holzschuh, “Too often networking [...]
