Most people aren’t familiar with end-of-life arrangements, leaving the individuals feeling stressed and unprepared when the time comes. The good news: a life care planner can help. What is life care planning? Life Care Planning is a holistic, team approach to organizing care [...]
Paying for long-term care may be one of the first things that comes across the mind of someone diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Not knowing what the future will look like or what it will cost is scary, but fortunately there are many different options available to pay for [...]
Long-term care is a continuum; people with Parkinson’s disease do not immediately require care at a skilled nursing facility where the average monthly care cost could be around $8,000. Care usually begins with family resources – a spouse or child helping in the home – and ma [...]
Life Care Planning is a TEAM approach to organizing care for a loved one with a chronic, progressive, and/or debilitating illness. It is a service that helps people access and pay for quality care and provides guidance while navigating the healthcare maze with the assistance [...]
A Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a document that is designed to allow terminally ill individuals and those experiencing an emergency to indicate to health care professionals what they desire to happen in life-ending situations. A POLST is NOT a subst [...]
Many people have heard of both Wills and Trusts, but do you understand what makes them distinct from each other? As with numerous estate planning topics, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish what the differences between the two are and when one is more appropriate than th [...]
A Power of Attorney (POA) is a legal document that gives someone the ability to make financial decisions and enter into transactions on your behalf. In signing a Power of Attorney, you are considered the “Principal”, or the person granting the power. The person you designate [...]
What It Is One of the issues most of us will face as we get older is the possibility of a critical and/or debilitating disease that may limit our independence, ability to experience a high quality of life, and increase the risk that we will outlive a fixed income. This is wh [...]
This question is one that many patients and their families ask. Even though a Health Care Directive and a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form deliver similar instructions, it is important to know the particulars of both. A Health Care Directive is a un [...]
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 [...]
