Living longer is a gift, but it also brings new challenges. Today’s families face rising healthcare costs, complex Medicaid rules, and the emotional challenge of caring for aging loved ones. Elder law attorneys help address those realities, ensuring your wishes are honored and your assets are preserved. For many families in...
Living at Home or Assisted Living: 3 Things to Consider
If you are getting older and own your home, you may have a difficult decision ahead of you: will you continue to live at home, or will you move into assisted living? This choice is particularly important because it affects not just you but your loved ones as well.
How to Protect Your Assets After Entering a Nursing Home
While a nursing home can provide necessary assistance in your waning years, it can also be a source of consternation. Eldercare facilities are notorious for sapping their residents’ assets. If you have money you want to share with loved ones after your death, that’s something you want to avoid at all costs.
Is a Long-Term Care Insurance Policy Right for You?
Facing the possibility of spending your twilight years in a nursing home can be scary, especially if you aren’t certain whether you’ll be able to afford a good facility or leave your most valuable assets to your heirs when you pass.
A long-term care insurance policy can offer a...
Retirement Planning 101: Where to Start and How to Plan
No matter how much you love your job, nobody wants to work forever. This is why it is important to consider how you will maintain your finances after you leave the workforce. This process is known as retirement planning.
Effective retirement planning requires compartmentalization. First, you need to know...
Protecting Your Elderly Loved Ones: How to Spot Predatory Situations
As your loved ones become older and lose their financial independence, they can become vulnerable to a number of abusive and predatory behaviors.
Financial exploitation from family members, friends, and even care staff is a common occurrence. Predatory situations can lead to bank accounts being drained and can leave your loved ones destitute after a...
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Inflation’s Impact on Your Long-Term Care Plan: Is It Time for a Review?
Inflation has touched just about every aspect of life. Gas prices, rent, and food costs have soared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Over the past 12 months, inflation has increased by 8.6%, the highest level since December 1981.
The trend is expected to continue, despite efforts to rein...
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Is It Time to Consider Guardianship for an Older Relative?
Guardianship means that a family member of an elderly parent or relative is placed in a position of higher responsibility to make medical and daily care decisions. The question about who and when to name a guardian for your aging loved ones is a significant one.
Watching a parent age is emotionally difficult. Those...
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What to Do With Your Home When Moving to a Nursing Home
Moving to a nursing home can be a really big step, but it can also be in the best interests of both an older person with advancing care and assistance needs as well as loved ones that may worry about the older person living on their own. As you move to a nursing home...
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Can You Be Paid as a Family Caregiver?
Being able to act as a caregiver to an aging or disabled family member can be a very fulfilling and rewarding endeavor. Family caregivers are able to make family members more comfortable as they age in place at home. While acting as a family caregiver has its own rewards, it can come with...
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