Many aging Americans depend on family members or friends to help manage their financial, health, and other affairs during retirement and beyond. They often believe that their family members will be able to take care of any issues that arise.…
It’s easy for seniors to feel isolated during times like the holidays or when loved ones are away. Thankfully, technology has provided some interactive gadgets to help lessen feelings of isolation. One of those gadgets, called the GrandPad, is discussed…
Many people who visit our offices seek to avoid the situation in which life is prolonged at all costs. Subsisting on expensive life-support, long past when that treatment might improve life, is not an inviting prospect. For that reason, it’s…
When Jeanette’s mother was hospitalized, Jeanette’s father begged her, with tears in his eyes, to take care of her mother if he ever couldn’t. Of course, Jeanette said “yes.” Years later, when Jeanette’s father had gone and mother’s hearing and…
Elder law attorneys are there to help their clients plan for the future. Unfortunately, many illnesses can change physical and mental health during the later years. In many cases, people may become unable to make their own decisions about care…
Saul was getting on in years, and he missed his wife who had recently died. So he sold the home, put the $100,000.00 in the bank, and moved into his son Arthur’s home. Every day Saul started his day as…
Mom and dad are getting older. One day dad tells mom that they may need to move to a nursing home. Concerned that the state will take all of their money, he takes certain precautionary measures; dad executes a deed…
Too often clients come to me when they have their backs against the wall faced with a difficult situation. Whether it is mom or dad, your husband or wife, or your best friend, people tend to not look to the…