Elder law is an area of law that includes estate, public benefits, and end-of-life planning. In contrast, estate planning is a narrow area only concerned with protecting and transferring your assets to your beneficiaries and heirs upon your death. Traditional estate planning is based on the misconception that the only issue you need to plan […]
As you age, you will be faced with many difficult decisions, not the least of which is how to pay for mounting medical costs. Medicare and Medicaid are two government programs that purport to help you pay for care. But often, these programs are insufficient, encourage you to impoverish yourself, and offer poor quality of
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As we or our parents’ age, we will be forced to confront how to receive quality long term care. At a certain point, aging adults will need assistance to meet their daily needs. Many times, this is done in an assisted living or skilled nursing facility. The concern becomes affording such care. Medical insurance rarely
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