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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Health Concerns for the Elderly, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Nursing Homes.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Elder law deals with the legal, financial, and health needs of senior citizens.  The country’s average age is advancing all the time, and now even baby-boomers are dealing with health issues and legal concerns they had not anticipated. In addition to estate planning, elder law attorneys also help with preparing for long-term healthcare needs, [...]

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The Living Will: Is it a Will, or a Health Care Directive, or Neither?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Another estate planning tool authorized by law in many jurisdictions is a living will.  A living will (also called a declaration of a desire for a natural death or a directive to physicians) allows a person who is unconscious or incapacitated to express his or her desires regarding the use of extraordinary measures to extend [...]

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