Frequently Asked Questions
Elder Care
- How to Know If Your Aging Parents Need Home Care
- Assisted Living vs. Nursing Homes: What’s the Difference?
- Skilled Nursing Facilities vs. Nursing Homes: What’s the Difference?
- What’s the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia?
- What Is Spousal Impoverishment?
- Can a Nursing Home Hold Friends or Family Members Responsible For a Resident’s Care?
- Depressive Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease Family Caregivers
- Free and Inexpensive Meal Delivery Options for Older Adults
- How to Choose the Best Home Care Provider for Your Parents
- How Seniors Can Prevent Loneliness as They Age
- Now You Can See More Data Before Choosing a Nursing Home
- Seniors and the Benefits of Downsizing
- 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
Estate Planning
- Is a Qualified Disability Trust Right For Your Estate Plan?
- Resources to Help With End-of-Life Care
- Using Estate Planning to Prepare for Medicaid
- Watch Out for These Potential Problems with Life Estates
- What Are Survivor Benefits?
- 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?
Financial Planning
- ABLE Accounts Offer Financial Independence for Beneficiaries Who Can Manage Their Own Money
- ABLE Accounts vs. Special Needs Trusts: Why Not Have It All?
- An ABLE Account Could Be a Great Place for Your $1,400 Relief Payment
- An Introduction to ABLE Accounts
- Are You Missing Out on Benefits? Find Programs You Can Use
- Buried in Student Loans? You May Be Eligible to Cancel Them
- How to Fix a Required Minimum Distribution Mistake
- What Are the Best Ways to Get Out of Debt Before You Retire?
- Who Should Purchase Long-Term Care Insurance?
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?
- What Is Long-Term Care and Who Provides It?
- When Does a Person Lack Capacity in a Guardianship?
Medicare and Medicaid
- 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?
Special Needs Assistance
- *?Alzheimer’s Awaits Nearly All Those with Down Syndrome. Why No Urgency?
- Do Beneficiaries of Special Needs Trusts Have Rights?
- Does Your Child’s Special Needs Trust Need a Tune-Up? Probably.
- Is an Intermediate Care Facility Right for Your Loved One?
- “New and Improved” Tax Deductions for Parents of Children with Special Needs
- Resources for Travelers with Special Needs Are Only a Click Away
- 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 is a Group Home?
- Why Are Doctors Failing to Treat People With Special Needs?
Social Security
- 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