Advising the Elderly Client

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This set offers a comprehensive survey of the major legal issues facing elderly clients. It provides in-depth analysis and guidance in the emerging field of elder law and the special planning needs of older clients: financial planning; estate planning; major entitlement programs such as Social Security income, pension and retirement benefits, Medicare and Medicaid; health care considerations; planning for incapacity, including living wills, durable powers of attorney, right-to-die issues; and discrimination against the elderly.

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Written by a team of experts located in several different states
Provides helpful checklists and charts

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Part 1: Introduction
Chapter
1. Overview: Demographics of Aging; Introduction to the Practice of Elder Law
2. Establishing an Elder Law Practice
3. Ethical Considerations
4. Daily Living Problems of the Aging Client: The Older Americans Act; Consumer and Mobility Issues, and Miscellaneous State Benefits
5. A. Elder Victimization, Abuse, and Neglect; Adult Protective Services
Part 2: Financial Planning
1. Planning for Income Requirements; Investments
2. Income Tax Planning
3. Planning for Real Property, Including the Residence
Part 3: Estate Planning
1. Transfer Taxes
2. Planning Lifetime Transfers
3. Wills, Trusts and Nontestamentary Dispositions
4. Planning for the Person About to Die
5. Postmortem Planning; Estate Administration
6. Disposing of Business and Professional Practices
7. Life Insurance Planning
Part 4: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income
1. Social Security Benefits
2. Supplemental Security Income and the Special Needs Trust
3. Veterans’ Benefits
4. Application, Payment, Administrative and Judicial Procedures
Part 5: Pension and Retirement Benefits
1. Distributions from Qualified Retirement Plans and IRAs
2. Public Pensions
Part 6: Health Care Facilities
1. Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Facilities
2. Home Care, Hospices, and Similar Care Alternatives
3. Residents’ Rights and Legal Protections
Part 7: Paying for Health Care
1. Health and Long-Term Care Insurance
2. Medicare Part A
3. Medicare Part B
4. A. Medicare Advantage (MA) Program
5. B. Medicare Part D: The Prescription Drug Benefit
6. Medicare Exclusions
7. Medicare Claims and Administrative Proceedings
8. Medicaid Program
9. Medicaid Covered Goods and Services
10. Medicaid Claims and Administrative Procedures
Part 8: Planning for Incapacity
1. Mental Capacity
2. Powers of Attorney and Health Care Decision-making
3. Guardianship and Conservatorship
Part 9: Discrimination Against the Elderly
1. Employment Discrimination
2. Disability Discrimination and the Elderly Client
3. Grandparent’s Issues: Kinship Caregiving, Visitation, and Related Matters

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