LIST OF ELDER LAW
PRACTICE AREAS
Elder Law
• Preservation/transfer of assets seeking to
avoid spousal impoverishment when a spouse
enters a nursing home
• Medicaid
• Medicare claims and appeals
• Social security, disability claims and appeals
• Supplemental and long term health insurance
issues
• Disability planning, including use of durable
powers of attorney, living trusts, living wills,
for financial management and health care
decisions, and other means of delegating
management and decision-making to another
in case of incompetency or incapacity
• Conservatorships and guardianships
• Nursing home issues including questions of
patients’ rights and nursing home quality
• Estate planning, including planning for the
management of one’s estate during life and
its disposition on death through the use of
trusts, wills and other planning documents.
• Probate
• Administration and management of trusts
and estates
• Long-term care placements in nursing home
and life care communities
• Elder abuse and fraud recovery cases
• Housing issues, including discrimination and
home equity conversions
• Age discrimination in employment
• Retirement, including public and private
retirement benefits, survivor benefits and
pension benefits
• Health law & mental health law
services including home and respite care,
assisted living residential care and nursing home
care This requires coordinating private funds
and being familiar with public benefit programs
to seniors such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social
Security, VA benefits as well as long-term care
insurance and reverse mortgages in order to
finance such care.
3. Elder Rights
Elder law even covers some aspects of criminal
law, including elder abuse, financial abuse of
elders, fraud and other consumer protection
issues, nursing home abuse, neglect and
impoverishment.
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