Medicaid is a comprehensive health care program that covers a wide range of people who require nursing facility medical care and meet certain financial eligibility guidelines. Medicaid is an imperative resource for seniors, covering more than 65 percent of all nursing home care. Nursing care currently costs approximately ...
Eighty-two-year-old Margaret Bentley is an Alzheimer’s patient at a Fraser Health nursing home (Maplewood House) that is spoon-feeding her against the former nurses wishes, expressed in her living will long before she became ill. Her family has filed a lawsuit alleging the feeding violates ...
The IRS just announced the 2016 federal estate tax rate limits, which are $5.45 million for individuals and $10.9 million for married couples. This means that wealthy Americans will be able to leave up to $10.9 million to their heirs ...
Sometimes you have to think outside of the box and you can discover a magnificent idea that will not only improve the life of a person living with dementia, but also the attitude and life of the caregiver. The article, Bags ...
The indie-rock band Noah & the Whale sings, “What you share with this world is what it keeps of you.” This particular lyric comes to mind when I consider the great efforts of a tremendous individual who has recently passed. ...
Close family members of people with Alzheimer’s disease are more than twice as likely as those without a family history to develop silent buildup of brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. A known risk factor and predictor of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, ...
Brighton, Michigan. Where quality is a way of life...right? Unfortunately, as someone looking for an estate planning or elder law attorney in Brighton, it can be difficult to identify a quality elder law attorney from an elder law attorney who ...
Trust lawyers in Bloomfield Hills see how trends come and go in the field, and an interesting new one has been showing up increasingly in the last several years. Those who are creating their wills and trusts are beginning to include ...
Even if you don't receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, you could deal with other chronic illnesses. You may need a plan customized to a particular illness Most Michigan residents want to spend their retirement years playing golf and traveling, but ...
Though Baby Boomers do focus on cash flow in retirement, planning beyond that with an estate plan is often not on their radar. Modern medicine is still researching better treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. In the meantime, Congress is considering a ...
