A weekly roundup of recent elder law news and practice development articles culled from news sources around the nation. Click on the headline to read the full article.
- Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm
- Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s Could Become Routine
- 7 Ways You Might Be Hurting Your Memory Every Day
- Long-Term Care Costs Are Sky-High, But Washington State’s New Way to Help Pay for Them Could Be Nixed
- Medicaid, Medicare Policy Changes Could Lead to More Than 25K Additional Deaths, Study Says
- Assisted Living Model Could Be Threatened by LTC Workforce Proposal
- Biden Plan to Reduce Medicaid Appointment Wait Times Faces Pushback
- U.S. Appeals Court: Today’s Loans May Be Tomorrow’s Gifts
- The Importance of Charitable Beneficiary Planning; Lessons From the Matter of the Estate of Heinecke
- Criminal Schemes Targeting U.S. Seniors Account for $3.4B in Reported Losses, FBI Says
- Fiction Book “Learning to Swim” Contains Laughs for the Sandwich Generation
- ‘Killer Nurse’ Gets 380 Years After Pleading Guilty to 3 Nursing Home Murders
- Former Ameriprise Rep Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for $1.2M Fraud