Activities of Daily Living Measure the Need for Long-Term Care Assistance
Most long-term care involves assisting with basic personal needs rather than providing medical care.
Medicare Announces Parts A and B Premiums and Deductibles for 2016
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has announced the 2016 Medicare premiums, deductibles, and coinsurances . . .
Veteran’s Day
By: Hannah Matherne, Client Services Coordinator Thanksgiving is the next big, commercialized holiday – even if it’s barely holding its own with Christmas items already filling the [...]
November – Taking Care to Care
Pablo Casals, a world renown cellist, once said, “I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.” As an Elder Law attorney, I often write or speak about [...]
How to Choose a Trustee
If you create a trust, you will need a separate person or institution, called a "trustee," to manage the trust either now or in the future, depending on the type of trust.
Robin Williams' Death Laid to Underdiagnosed Form of Dementia
Although depression was initially given as the cause of actor Robin Williams’ suicide in 2014, his widow says autopsy results lay the blame on Lewy body dementia, a fairly common but [...]
Budget Deal Blunts Medicare Premium Spike, At Least for Now
As a result of the recently passed Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, Medicare Part B premiums will [...]
New Federal Budget Ends Two Spousal Social Security Claiming Strategies
The federal budget agreement that President Obama signed into law November 2, 2015, contains changes to how spouses can claim Social Security benefits, ending two strategies previously [...]