Medicaid and People with Dementia The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured released an issue brief on Medicaid’s Role for People with Dementia. Consider this: Almost one-half (46%) of nursing facility residents and about one in five (21%) seniors living in the community has probable or possible dementia, a syndrome characterized by Read More
Myths and Facts About Health Care Advance Directives
Myths and Facts About Health Care Advance Directives By: Charles Sabatino* What is an “advance health care directive”? Are so-called “living wills” legally binding? For the answers to these questions, please read on: Terms to Know Advance Care Planning – A process for setting goals and plans with respect to medical care and treatments. It Read More
New Illinois Law on “Presumptively Void” Bequests to Non-Family Caregivers
New Illinois Law on “Presumptively Void” Bequests to Non-Family Caregivers Illinois adopted a new law, Public Act 098-1093, effective on January 1, 2015 that assigns a “presumptively void” status to bequests made to non-family caregivers, if the transfer would take effect upon the death of the cared-for person. The law applies only to post-effective date Read More
Inheriting Debt from a Family Member
Inheriting Debt from a Family Member When a loved one passes away, his or her outstanding debt (and how that debt will be paid) likely won’t be the first thing on your mind. Unfortunately, many people find themselves dealing with a deceased family member’s creditors as they grieve. While no one likes to think about Read More
One Stop Tech Knowledge Base from AARP
One Stop Tech Knowledge Base from AARP Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with your children and grandchildren. If you like to read, eBooks are the way to go. And you can access almost any radio station in the USA via the internet. For those of us who are exploring the digital Read More
Telephone Scams Preying on Vulnerable Adults
Telephone Scams Preying on Vulnerable Adults Criminals use clever schemes to defraud millions of innocent people, often employing sophisticated technology and reinventing age-old scams that pressure people to make snap decisions that prey on a person’s sympathies and vulnerabilities. Persons with disabilities and their family members often become unwitting targets of financial predators. The Federal Read More
New HHS Website for Elders
New HHS Website for Elders More than 10,000 people turn 65 every day in the United States, and people are living longer, healthier lives. Healthy lifestyles, planning for retirement, and knowing your options for health care and long-term care are more important than ever before. As part of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging, Read More
Doctor Assisted Suicide
Doctor Assisted Suicide Pew Research Center has reported the results of a survey conducted last year shows that U.S adults are about evenly divided about laws that allow doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman with terminal brain cancer, publicly announced her plan to take her own life soon after her Read More
Planning for Families Supporting Adults with Lifelong Disabilities
Planning for Families Supporting Adults with Lifelong Disabilities Parents who take time to plan while they still have the health, time, and energy to do so gain not only great peace of mind for themselves but also show care for the rest of their family. In these situations, planning is more than just a will Read More
Protection of Retirement Accounts from Creditor Claims
Protection of Retirement Accounts from Creditor Claims Nebraska law generally protects pension, profit-sharing, and similar retirement accounts from claims of creditors in bankruptcy and judgment creditors to the extent the funds contained therein are reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor or any dependent of the debtor. While Nebraska does not have a statute Read More