If an elderly relative needs to qualify for Medicaid in order to pay for long-term care costs, including at an assisted living facility or nursing home, where do you start? We posed this question to Madeline Thorn, an attorney at Fendrick Morgan, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in New Jersey.
Pictured above: Laurie Adamshick's parents, Bob and Fusae Shield.
Around the nation, older adults make their marks every day as volunteers, employees, employers, parents, grandparents, mentors, and advocates. They offer their time, talents, and experience to the benefit of our communities.
For Marty Fogarty, elder law is personal.
Marty is the founder of The Heartland Law Firm, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Glenview, Illinois. Marty knows firsthand how taxing the elder care journey can be. Like millions of other older adults suffering from dementia and “elder frailty,” Marty’s father fell through the cracks of an impersonal and fragmented elder care system, a system which often disregards the frail elder’s personal dignity.
Did you know that a little-known compensation program available for people exposed to radiation as a result of the United States military’s domestic nuclear testing program is coming to an end? The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) can offer up to $100,000 for those who may have developed cancer or other specified diseases after such exposure. However, the RECA program is set to sunset in 2022.
Public benefits like Medicaid make it possible for millions of older Americans to pay for long-term care. Though the process to qualify for Medicaid differs by state, the experience of qualifying is considered to be a difficult one no matter where you live. That’s why the public benefits specialists in Life Care Planning Law Firms are always so busy.
The United States Congress threw a monkey wrench into the estate plans of millions by passing the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2020. How will this new law impact retirement plans? Will it change how people choose to pass down retirement plans to their loved ones? We posed these questions to Franklin Drazen, an elder law and tax attorney, and founder of Drazen Rubin Law Group, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Milford, Connecticut.
National Healthcare Decisions Day is almost here. Celebrated in mid-April (it’s on April 16 this year), National Healthcare Decisions Day exists to inspire, educate, and empower the public and providers about the importance of advance care planning.
