Another uneventful Sunday was planned by a friend of mine. She was to meet Sophie, her 90-year-old mother-in-law, at church for the Sunday service. But this Sunday didn’t go as planned. Sophie arrived late and found her daughter-in-law already in the pew. The church service [...]
…continued The GP recently modified a prescription given by the nephrologist and changed the dosage of Sophie’s blood pressure medication. Even though Sophie’s grandson knows what medications she has, he is not sure that she is actually taking them. Sophie and her grandson l [...]
There 4 law schools in the Twin Cities area. This means there are approximately 1,200 new lawyers graduating each year. With the economy as it is today these new lawyers as well as more seasoned lawyers are finding jobs hard to find. Choosing a good Elder Law attorney in thes [...]
In my 30 years as an elder law attorney I have had the opportunity to counsel many families in the journey through the elder care maze. Families struggle with the want to help their elders, the high cost of care outside and even inside the home, the time commitment for care, [...]
I can’t stand it anymore. I open the paper, turn on the television, the radio, or pick up the telephone and I am bombarded with campaign ads. And I assume this can only get worse after Labor Day as we head in to the home stretch towards the election in November. In the last [...]
While many of us look forward to roaming the world once we have retired, we need to be prepared. Traditional Medicare does not provide coverage for hospital and medical costs outside the United States. Exception: Medicare does cover residents of Puerto, Rico, Guam, the US [...]
What was true for obtaining Medicare coverage overseas is not true for receiving one’s Social Security benefits. People who decide to retire to another country or who travel outside the United States for more than 30 days in a row must comply with Social Security’s rules for [...]
So what if you think you don’t have the funds to purchase a longterm care insurance policy? Perhaps you could consider a limited duration long term care insurance policy. Typically these policies can be used to keep the cost of long term care insurance affordable. According t [...]
Digital assets can range from items of financial value like online bank and brokerage accounts to domain names, Twitter accounts, and social media pages. Sometimes accounting for these assets after the death of the owner can be a nightmare. It becomes even more difficult if [...]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., (FINRA) the brokerage industry’s largest regulator, has issued a warning against financial advisors using authoritative-sounding titles like “certified senior advisor” or “certified retirement counselor” because the use of th [...]
