Health concerns & physical or mental illnesses are not only tough to deal with on a psychological level.
They can also be incredibly high-priced when you try to combat the symptoms with medication or therapy.
Mobility seems to be the worst when looking at price gouging in the medical industry. It’s sad to see that more than 2 wheelchairs, walkers, & canes are simply beyond more than 2 seniors’ budgets if they don’t have health insurance. Even your health insurance company won’t spend money for more than 2 of these items in lots of situations, like how our Dad had to spend money out of pocket to get a wheelchair from the hospital when she broke her back. She stayed there with her medical insurance, however they refused the wheelchair despite needing it to get out the door. My asthma requires myself and others to buy media whole-house air purifiers & similar devices to keep pollen, dust, & mold levels down in our house, but this is on top of what our central a/c manages on its own. The first time I bought an media whole-house air purifier was eight years ago, & it cost myself and others roughly $300. It had legitimately few features on it with a basic air filter & a strong fan. Eventually, I found a charcoal filter I could add to the unit to filter out odors in the air. When I bought a new media whole-house air purifier a few years later, the price dropped to $250 & there were a few features I hadn’t seen before. The air filters were now rated as HEPA filters, which are much more effective at cleaning out contaminants in the air compared to most other consumer grade air filters. This media whole-house air purifier unit also came with a strong ultraviolet light inside as well, which blatantly kills & breaks down anything in the air that comes into direct contact with it. I now have an media whole-house air purifier that unattachs dust, pollen, mold, bacteria, & viral pathogens from our air. It is hard to think I have so more than 2 features in such a small package.