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How to Prepare for Your Aging Parent’s Care
No matter the situation, preparation is crucial to providing care for an aging parent. Whether you need basic information about eldercare resources and services, are looking for a local agency to provide those services or have worries about legal documents or how to finance your parents’ care needs now or in the future, the time to begin planning is today.
Finding a Continuing Care Retirement Community that Works for You
Recently, Continuing care retirement communities (CCRC) are gaining in popularity across the United States. Sometimes referred to as life plan communities, the goal is to provide a long-term care option for older residents. These residents prefer to live in the same...
Who Do you Want to Make Financial Decisions for You?
When you are no longer able to do so, who should you trust to manage your financial well being? A power of attorney (POA), otherwise known as an agent to your principal, has the legal authority to represent and make decisions on your behalf. What characteristics...
Important Information and Different Options for Life Insurance
Recently, the events around us have made many of us think about our mortality and how to make sure our loved ones are taken care of especially if we die unexpectedly. Life insurance can be an affordable way to provide for our children, a spouse, a sibling, aging...
When Both You and Your Loved One Need Caregiving
Naturally, family systems have a habit of stepping in to provide health care to their aging relatives. The love and care many adult children receive growing up become reciprocal, particularly in the case of their aging parents. But with the advent of longer lives, it...
Keep Care In The Family By Putting It In Writing
After her husband died, Dorothy lived alone. Soon her son Damien noticed that she didn’t have enough clean clothes, her fridge was empty, and she had fallen a few times. Clearly if Dorothy were going to stay at home – and who wouldn’t rather do that, if possible – she...
Why Long-Term Care Insurance is Important
Long-term care insurance is very important and beneficial for the elderly or disabled person who will need services or support to meet their personal care or health needs. However, it is important to understand long-term care insurance before the time comes when the...
Elder Law Attorneys Helping Seniors and their Family
Elder law encompasses a wide range of legal matters affecting an older or disabled person. Issues related to guardianship, retirement, health care including advance directives, long term care planning, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other relevant matters...
Bad Reasons to Put Off Estate Planning
My family and I don’t own much. Can’t we put off planning until we can afford it? You shouldn’t. It is crucial to give legal authority to a person of your choice, to care for your children if anything should happen to you. You don’t want your children to become wards...
Is Your Estate Plan Updated for the New Year?
You should check your estate planning documents every so often, to make sure they’re still good, especially with big life changes like births, marriages, divorces, and moving to another state. Children grow up, marriages dissolve, property gets sold, residences...
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