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The High Cost of Dementia

November 2nd, 2015
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 trea… Read More
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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
Tags: Asset Protection, Demential, Elder Law, Elder Law Attorney, long-term care planning, Medicaid, Medicaid Nursing Home Planning, Medicaid Planning, Medicaid Trust Planning, Paying for a Nursing Home

Can I Survive Financially if I Live to be 100?

September 25th, 2015
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 a… Read More
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Estate Planning, Weblogs, Will
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

Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements are OK

August 7th, 2015
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 was… Read More
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Categories: Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Will
Tags: Arbitration Clause, Elder Law, long-term care planning, Nursing Homes, Paying for a Nursing Home

Answers to Questions about Medicare and Medicaid

February 4th, 2015
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 wi… Read More
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Categories: Aging Issues, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Medicaid, Power of Attorney, Probate, Will
Tags: Elder Law, Elder Law Retirement Planning, long-term care planning, Medicaid, Medicaid Nursing Home Planning, Medicaid Planning, Medicaid Planning Lawyer, Medicaid Trust Planning, Paying for a Nursing Home, Retirement Planning