Protect Your Family! We’ve Cracked the Code on Long-Term Care Planning
A complaint shared among many individuals who seek legal advice—especially those with questions about long-term care planning—is that the advice they receive often seems erudite to the point that they...
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
This June 15th, in Prague will mark the 7th annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, and the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse is excited to report that...
Anger: Managing Your Emotions
Emotions may run high during times of change. This is especially true for those of us who have taken on greater responsibilities than we did previously due to a major...
Abuse and Neglect: Properly Assessing a Situation
Certainly, we’d all like to think that those living in nursing homes or assisted living facilities receive the care they need. We’d loathe suspect that personnel or even other residents...
Medication Concerns
If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, then you’ll likely have many concerns about both what—and when—medication is right for you. As you’re most likely...
Plans for Effective Treatment by 2025
While one media outlet after another reports on the latest news concerning Alzheimer’s research—and while much of that research might even suggest that effective treatment for the disease remains within...
Agitation – Paying Attention to Non-Verbal Cues
If your loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, then you’re well aware that both your loved one have difficult journey ahead. One challenge you’ll face as...
Longer Life Spans = Unexpected Financial Needs
For years now, the CDC, as well as other institutions that publish studies on health, have produced study after study that indicate Americans are living longer than they did in...
The Issues Facing Seniors
Like most of us, you’ll likely experience more than a couple of unexpected events in your life that cause you to re-think your long-term financial plans. These unexpected life events...
Long-Term Planning – Cracking the Code
In Protect Your Family! We’ve Cracked the Code on Long-Term Care Planning, Paul J. Stano and ten leading elder law attorneys shed light on up-to-date issues concerning seniors, their families,...
Keeping a Sense of Humor
One common experience of caregivers is that they often feel they’ve lost their senses of humor. The seriousness of their loved ones’ conditions, coupled with the stresses of providing constant...
Getting Family Members To Help
If you’re part of the “sandwich generation,” or the generation with children at home and a elder parent in need of care, then you probably spend each day wearing several...