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, ...
The Medicaid Bomb
Recently, planners have advertised, promoted, and nearly shouted about a type of planning known as VA planning. VA planning plays an extremely important role in determining benefit eligibility. Typically, these ...
Reverse Mortgages and Benefit Eligibility
The Aid and Attendance Benefit Program (discussed briefly in another entry) certainly seems ideal for those war veterans and war veteran spouses with large medical bills. That said, however, couples ...
Safe, Stress Free Living Environments
Individuals with Alzheimer’s—as well as their caregivers—will at some point require additional care around the home. Assisted living facilities provide a common solution for those whose loved ones being showing ...
Melvin and Howard, The Sequel: Court Dismisses Fraud Suit Against Hughes Heirs
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the dismissal of a fraud suit brought by Melvin Dummar, a beneficiary under Howard Hughes's purported handwritten will, against Hughes's intestate heirs. Dummar ...
High Court Rules Ohio Medicaid’s Treatment of Trust Depends on Rules at Time of Application
In a case argued by ElderLawAnswers member William J. Browning, the Ohio Supreme Court rules that whether a trust is an available asset to a Medicaid applicant depends on the ...