A number of patients with chronic diseases and advanced age at the Lakeside Senior Medical Center, an outpatient clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, have never filled out power-of-attorney documents or appointed someone to make health care decisions if they are unable to. Doctors frequently suspect ...
The news frequently reports incidents where elderly people in neighborhoods wander away and are met with dire circumstances.Alzheimer’s patients don’t intend to run away, but often start walking and realize they have ventured too far after it’s too late and ...
An “I love you” Will is one in which all the decedent’s assets have been left to the spouse. On paper, it might seem to be a caring, thoughtful gesture, but the reality is quite different. A Will simply passes ...
The nation’s largest seller of long-term care insurance, Genworth Financial, is engages in an “intense, very broad, and deep review of all aspects of our long-term care insurance business,” President and CEO Tom Mclnerney told investors. (Related: Survey Shows Women Are ...
Naming the right beneficiary could result in years of tax-deferred savings By Chris Berry Would you like to transform your modest tax-deferred account into millions for your family? Based on whom you name as beneficiary, this money can continue growing tax-deferred for ...
A major question is already being asked for Michigan’s budget in 2014: Should Medicaid coverage be expanded to those at or below 138 percent of poverty? The answer is YES. Medicaid expansion forecasts positively for Michigan’s economy. The federal government ...
Mature man reading old book surrounded by heaps of books SO WHAT IS ELDER LAW? As you can see on the banner and even in the URL address for this website, we are all about elder law. But perhaps after ...
Wednesday, Governor Rick Snyder discussed his plans for Medicaid expansion and his “Healthy Michigan Now” campaign. Anne Bickford, a resident of the Fox Run Retirement Community asked Snyder what would guarantee the federal government pays for the Medicaid expansion and how the state will ...
If you’re like 70% of people in the US who have a retirement plan, you still haven’t worked with a professional such as a trust and estates attorney in Bloomfield Hills in order to determine how much money you really need to ...
As it stands, Medicare will pay for hospice or skilled nursing (S.N.F.), but only rarely will it cover both at the same time, forcing families to make the difficult choice between the two. For financial reasons most families opt for ...
