Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about specific areas of our practice
- Why Hire an Elder Law Attorney?
- What Is Long-Term Care and Who Provides It?
- How to Know If Your Aging Parents Need Home Care?
- What’s the Difference Between Assisted Living and Nursing Homes?
- What’s the Difference Between Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Homes?
- What Is Spousal Impoverishment?
- Are You Missing Out on Benefits? Find Programs You Can Use?
- Can a Nursing Home Hold Friends or Family Members Responsible For a Resident’s Care?
- How to Choose the Best Home Care Provider for Your Parents?
- How Intermediate Care Facilities can Serve Older Adults?
- How Seniors Can Prevent Loneliness as They Age?
- How Do You Find Data When Choosing a Nursing Home?
- When Can Someone Be Declared Legally Incompetent?
- When Is a Nursing Home Eviction Legal, and What Can I Do?
- When Should You Start Helping With Your Parents’ Finances?
- When to Leave a Nursing Home and Move Back Home?
- After a Dementia Diagnosis: Preparing for the Future?
- What’s the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia?
- Resources to Help With End-of-Life Care
- Will Divorce Affect Child Support in a Special Needs Family?
- Some Key Decisions in Setting Up a Special Needs Trust
- How Do You Choose a Trustee for a Special Needs Trust?
- Can Others Contribute to My Child’s Special Needs Trust?
- What is a Group Home?
- Should You Hire a Special Needs Advocate?
- Do Beneficiaries of Special Needs Trusts Have Rights?
- Is an Intermediate Care Facility Right for Your Loved One?
- Are There Resources for Travelers with Special Needs?
- Should My Loved One With Special Needs Use a True Link Card?
- Steps to Take if the Care Facility for Your Loved One Closes
- What Are a Special Needs Trustee’s Record-Keeping Duties?
- What Happens to Assets Left in a Special Needs Trust on the Death of the Beneficiary?
- What Taxes Are Due When the Beneficiary of a Special Needs Trust Dies?
- When Does Someone Need a Financial Guardianship?
- Ending Guardianship of an Adult
- How Can You Transfer a Guardianship Between States?
- How Legal Counsel Can Benefit Ward in Proposed Guardianship
- What Are the Ward’s Rights in a Guardianship?
- What Is a Ward of the State?
- When Does a Person Lack Capacity in a Guardianship?
- Avoiding the Medicare Part D Late Enrollment Penalty
- Can You Appeal When a Hospital Considers You an Outpatient?
- Comparing Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage
- Do Medicare or Medicaid Cover Senior Day Care Services?
- Does Medicare Cover the Cost of Getting a Second Opinion?
- Does Medicare Pay for Assisted Living?
- Getting Medicare Food Benefits
- How Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person Program Aids Seniors
- How to Get Into a Nursing Home as a Medicaid Recipient
- How You Can End Up in Medicare’s Donut Hole, and How You Get Out
- Medicaid’s Coverage of Nursing Home Care
- Medicare Will Now Cover Medically Necessary Dental Care
- Miller Trusts Can Help You Qualify for Medicaid
- Pros and Cons of a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust
- Protect Yourself From Predatory Medicare Advantage Marketers
- Protecting Spouses of Medicaid Applicants: 2023 Guidelines
- Researching Medicare or Medicaid? Google Wants to Help
- What Can I Do During the Medicare Open Enrollment Period?
- What Documents Are Required for a Medicaid Application?
- What Does “Medicaid Pending” Mean?
- What Is a Health Savings Account? Will Medicare Affect Mine?
- What Is a Medicare Summary Notice?
- What Is Community Medicaid?
- What Is the Difference Between Medicaid and Medicare?
- What It Means to Need ‘Nursing Home Level of Care’ for Medicaid Eligibility
- What to Do If Medicare Denies Coverage for Prescription Drug
- What to Do If Your Medicaid Application Is Denied
- What to Look for When Choosing a Medicare Advantage Plan
- What Vaccines Does Medicare Cover?
- Will Medicare Expand Benefits for Power Wheelchair Users?
- Will Medicare Pay for Housekeeping Services?
- Will You Lose Your Medicaid Coverage When the Pandemic Ends?
- Claiming Social Security Benefits at Age 70
- Could the SSI “In-Kind Income” Definition Change?
- Husbands Usually Don’t Consider Their Wives’ Future When Deciding When to Take Social Security Benefits
- Most Who Apply for Social Security Disability Insurance Are Rejected; What Can You Do to Improve Your Chances?
- Strategies for Bridging SSDI’s Medicare Waiting Period
- Three Changes You Must Report as an SSI Recipient
- What Does SSA Stand For?
- What Other Benefits Can I Get With SSDI?
- When Are Children Eligible for Social Security Benefits?
- Who Gets Social Security Survivor Benefits?
- You May Be Overestimating Your Social Security Benefits