Silver State of Mind

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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Thrive Thursday
  1. 9:04Stronger Every Morning

    Your health plan is becoming Kaiser. Your card still works.

    Hometown Health, the local not-for-profit insurer a lot of Northern Nevadans carry, is now jointly owned with Kaiser Permanente and is being rebranded Kaiser Permanente Nevada. We walk through what actually changed, what hasn't, and the one detail nobody has put in writing.

    Kaiser Permanente, joint venture completed · 2026-02-03Kaiser Permanente, first Northern Nevada medical offices open · 2026-07-01Kaiser Permanente launches in Nevada · 2025-09-10Hometown Health, joint venture FAQs for providers · 2026
  2. 9:17Stronger Every Morning

    Nobody new can open a hospice in Nevada right now

    The federal government froze new hospice enrollment nationwide in May, and Nevada went further in June by freezing the state license too. We look at the door-to-door scam the FBI warned about, what signing up for hospice actually does to your Medicare, and why every number in this story is a Las Vegas number.

    Federal Register 91 FR 27946, nationwide hospice enrollment moratorium · 2026-05-15Federal Register 91 FR 27954, parallel home health moratorium · 2026-05-15FBI IC3 Public Service Announcement I-060326-PSA · 2026-06-03Nevada Health Authority, licensure and Medicaid enrollment pause · 2026-06-05Nevada Medicaid Web Announcement 3940 · 2026-06-1142 CFR 418.24 and 418.28, hospice election and revocation · currentNevada Medicare Assistance Program / Senior Medicare Patrol, Access to Healthcare Network · 2026
  3. 9:31Stronger Every Morning

    Name one friend you made after you stopped working

    Forty percent of adults over 45 register as lonely, and the highest rate isn't among the oldest listeners, it's among people still working. We look at what the research actually says, why the standard advice to go join something doesn't work, and where to call in Washoe and Carson City.

    Holt-Lunstad, Smith & Layton, PLOS Medicine · 2010-07-27Julianne Holt-Lunstad on the 15-cigarettes comparison · accessed 2026-07-29AARP, Disconnected: The Escalating Challenge of Loneliness Among Adults 45-Plus (n=3,276) · 2025-12-03Survey Center on American Life, Men's Social Circles are Shrinking · 2021-06-29S. Cacioppo et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, citing Masi et al. 2011 · 2015-03National Academies, Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults · 2020America's Health Rankings, Suicide age 65+, 2022-2024, CDC WONDER · 2026NCHS Data Brief No. 541, Garnett & Zehner · 2025-09
  4. 9:46Stronger Every Morning

    You are the long-term care plan. Nobody told you.

    Assisted living in Nevada runs about $6,200 a month and a semi-private nursing home room is $388 a day. Medicare doesn't cover what most people think it covers. We go through the real numbers, the observation-status trap that costs families a fortune, and the free local help that does exist.

    CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, Nevada state data · 2026-03-02CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, national medians · 2026-03-02CMS, 2026 Medicare Parts A & B premiums and deductibles · 2025-11-14Medicare.gov, skilled nursing facility care · accessed 2026-07-29CMS CMCS Informational Bulletin, 2026 SSI and spousal impoverishment standards · 2026-04-27Nevada 1915(c) Structured Family Caregiving waiver application, Appendix B-3 · 2024-12-19AARP, Valuing the Invaluable 2026 · 2026-03-26University of Nevada, Reno, Sanford Center for Aging caregiver funding · 2026-06-30Washoe County Senior Services · accessed 2026-07-29

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