As we stress often to families in our practice, planning for and dealing with the significant challenges and difficulties of long-term care is a daunting process. The complexities of very complicated state and federal Medicaid laws and regulations…
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When faced with long-term nursing home placement, countless individuals and their loved ones lament having to consider them in the first place. However, in many cases, the 24-hour supervision and specialized services provided in these facilities are…
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Categories: Advocacy, Aging Parents, Caregiving, Dehydration, Elder Care, Estate Planning, Family Caregiver, General Interest, Geriatric Care, Health, Hydration, Life Care Planning, Long-Term Care Planning, Power of Attorney, Skilled Nursing Facility
A recent court decision from the Nebraska Supreme Court shows the perils of not planning for long term care before there is a problem. For example: a now divorced 94-year-old must pay so much alimony that it brings his income below the poverty leve…
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Can an individual suffering from dementia legally divorce his or her spouse? Or to put it another way, can someone with dementia possess the legal right to divorce and initiate a lawsuit yet at the same time to lack the capacity to manage property…
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Categories: Advocacy, Aging in Place, Aging Parents, Blog, Caregiving, Dementia, Elder Care, Elder Law, Estate Planning, General Interest, Health Care Power of Attorney, Life Care Planning, Long-Term Care Planning, Power of Attorney
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community is garnering a lot of national attention in recent months following the United States Supreme Court decision to recognize same-sex marriage. Advocacy groups have been working for years to r…
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Summer often brings to mind vacations and taking time off from everyday stress. Caregivers of loved ones living with dementia-related diseases know that caregiving can be a full-time job in addition to the responsibilities associated with employment…
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Here in the great state of Connecticut, there have been several new communities opening and marketed to the older adult population. Communities designated as “Independent Living” (IL) and “Assisted Living” (AL) can be very successful in comba…
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Categories: Aging Parents, Caregiving, Elder Care, Elderly Independence, Elderly Isolation, Elderly Safety, Estate Planning, Fall Prevention, Family Caregiver, Life Care Planning, Long-Term Care Planning
There is currently proposed legislation being considered by Congress that would make an important change to the Medicaid income rules for married couples. Specifically, if H.R. 1771 (114th Congress) is enacted into law, it would mean that all incom…
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For many couples, it seems quite natural that sooner or later they will want to legally cement their relationship by getting married. Whether or not that couple attaches a particular religious or cultural significance to the act of getting married,…
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Moviegoers and members of the motion picture academy were captivated this year by Julianne Moore’s performance as a 50-year-old college professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in the film “Still Alice.” Based on the 2009 nove…
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