Lawyers, community members: share your tragic stories. We hope to shine a light on the cruelty Medicaid Estate Recovery inflicts on taxpayers. If you have cancer and need in-home care, Medicare will provide (up to its benefit limits). If you
I was at the doctors office for a routine visit a week or so ago. I got his first appointment in the morning so I could get in, get it done and go!
Well, didn’t turn out as planned. He
Medicaid for the aged population requires payback for long term care which involves chronic medical conditions such as dementia. The payment for these benefits is due when the recipient dies and states are very aggressive in their collection. The payback
Hello friends,
For years I have been writing about the injustice of families afflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementia who will lose their home if they ask their government for a bit of help. If they won the “Genetic
Recently I wrote about under-appreciated caregivers who “can’t get any respect.” However that observation is not true about all elder “caregivers.” Sometimes the “caregiver” is abusing the elder. What are the signs of elder abuse?
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Like all elder law and estate planning attorneys, I met daily with seniors who were adjusting to the needs of aging by authorizing a child to act for them. The legal role may have been of an agent under a
Hi I am Jim Schuster a retired Elder law attorney of some 30 years. I’m born, raised and live in Michigan and I think you’ll find just a bit of that down to earth mid-west practicality here. In this blog
In an upcoming series of blog articles, we’ll be writing on a little known subject called Medicaid Estate Recovery (MER). It surprises many people that a government healthcare program for aging seniors has a payback requirement. The program is not