Month: September 2017

Key Issues to Consider in Assisted Living Contracts

When someone gets ready to move into an assisted living facility there will inevitably be a lot of paperwork involved.  Much of that paperwork is fairly straightforward and need not be a cause for concern.  However, amid the big stack of needed signatures, there is one document you must review carefully before signing.  That document […]
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Seven Signs a Child is Financially Abusing an Older Parent

Unfortunately, financial exploitation of older individuals is an all too common occurrence in our country.  The National Council on Aging estimates that as many as 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 60 has experienced some sort of elder abuse.  And what many people don’t realize is that a large portion of those incidents […]
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The Nursing Home Reform Act

One of the primary goals of the life care planning we provide to our clients is trying to keep our older clients out of the nursing home if at all possible.  Nonetheless, that is not always possible.  And when it looks like a loved one will need to move into a skilled nursing facility, we […]
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What if the Hospital Ignores Your End of Life Wishes?

When we ask our clients if they would ever want to be artificially kept alive on a machine or the like, they almost invariably answer NO.  We have all seen too many horror stories of individuals who end up living a sad existence in a vegetative state for a prolonged period of time.  Almost all […]
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Are you all set if you have long term care insurance?

Long term care planning is complicated.  When we help guide our clients through that process we must consider many factors, including things like amounts of current and future assets and income, likely expenses, health conditions of various family members, and other family dynamics.  So when a client has a long term care insurance policy it […]
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