Elder Law Attorneys can help with Medicare or Medicaid. Other issues might include the need for long-term care planning, solving disputes with family members, preparing Powers of Attorney, medical care planning or guardianship.
Elder Law Attorneys represent a growing specialty of the law that helps the elderly deal with many of the problems mentioned above. Elder Law Attorneys can often do much more for their clients. Below is a list of services that an Elder Law Attorney might provide:
- Preservation or transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment when a spouse enters a nursing home
- Medicaid qualification and application and Medicaid planning strategies
- Medicare claims and appeals
- Social Security and 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
- 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
- Nursing home issues including questions of patients’ rights and nursing home quality
- Elder abuse and fraud recovery cases
- Housing issues, including discrimination and home equity conversions (reverse mortgages)
- Age discrimination in employment
- Retirement, including public and private retirement benefits, survivor benefits and pension benefits
- Health law
- Mental health law