Elder Law News

Understanding Medicare's rules for care in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) is useful for older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers, particularly because confusion [...]

Many people assume they will never need long-term care. However, nearly 70 percent of adults age 65 and over will require such services at some point in their later years. Long-term care [...]

Existing Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) rules grant specific accommodations based on age, particularly for workers over age 50. However, changes to these age-related [...]

Is it time to consider in-home care for an aging loved one? Here are some ways to tell.

Two privately held nursing homes in New Jersey are accused of siphoning off tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding while residents endured unsafe and inhumane conditions.

Will joint tenancy with right of survivorship protect assets from Medicaid estate recovery?

I am my brother's rep payee for the money to be sent to the nursing facility. They submitted a change to have the money routed to them, and the Social Security letter stated it was per my [...]

Can siblings act as a proxy for their mentally incompetent sister?

As boomers live longer, spend more in retirement, age in place, and hold onto their homes, many younger adults are discovering that the inheritance they hoped would help level the [...]

Medicaid permits the healthy spouses of Medicaid patients who need long-term care services to retain limited resources to keep them from becoming impoverished.