Long-term care planning is a must for any senior citizen, but as costs continue to drastically climb, the prospect of being able to fund long-term care seems next to impossible. While there are more options available today for senior care, some of w…
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Recent changes at the federal level now make planning for the financial future of your special needs child easier than ever. A special needs trust is designed to protect property and income belonging to your child and provide that child with income a…
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For decades, states have granted courts the power to appoint guardians or conservators for elderly or disabled people unable to tend to their basic needs. Most appointed guardians are family members, but judges can turn to a growing industry of prof…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Power of Attorney, Succession, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Three diseases, leading killers of Americans, often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them — heart disease and cancer — usually require expensive drugs, surgeries and hospitalizations. The third, dementia, has no effective tre…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Power of Attorney, Probate, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Richard A. Courtney, President of the Special Needs Alliance (SNA) and principal in the Courtney Elder Law Associates section of Frascogna Courtney, PLLC, testified Friday, September 18 before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommitte…
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How long will you live? It’s a key question in retirement planning. If you’re healthy and your family tree has branches with staying power, you may figure that you have decades ahead. If your parents died early of natural causes, you may assume…
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Tags: Annuity, Asset Protection, Elder Law, Estate Tax, Long-Term Care Insurance, long-term care planning, Medicaid, Medicaid Planning, Medicaid Planning Lawyer, Paying for a Nursing Home, Planning for the Future, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning
Buffalo attorney Julie Bargnesi is a proponent of fairness to health care providers and patients alike. She’s not only an attorney who represents health care providers and is a part of the health care industry practice team at Harris Beach, she wa…
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One adult son talks about his mother-in-law's well-being: She is elderly, lives alone, experiences symptoms of dementia, and doesn't accept help easily. She refuses to have strangers in the house. She has lost all effort to cook, but she w…
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