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Legal & Financial Issues – Overview/ ChecklistSenior Legal Hotlines Directory, a map with links to local Legal Hotlines for Seniors, which are maintained by the National Association of Senior Legal Hotlines, a non-profit established to advance the legal rights of seniors by increasing the availability . . . → Read More: Senior Legal Hotlines Directory – State by State  Legal and Financial Planning for People with Alzheimer’s Disease, Fact Sheet by the Alzheimer’s Disease Education & Referral (ADEAR) Center, a Service of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. . . . → Read More: Legal and Financial Planning for People with Alzheimer’s Disease Eldercare: Caregiving, Nursing Home, Medicaid, Living Wills, by Rocco Beatrice, C.P.A. A general discussion and checklist of financial and legal issues for family caregivers of the elderly. »View details: Eldercare Caregiving, Nursing Home, Medicaid, Living Wills – A . . . → Read More: Eldercare: Caregiving, Nursing Home, Medicaid, Living Wills – A Checklist  Comments are closed  Checklists on Legal & Financial Issues, General Checklists, Legal Issues - Overview National Institute on Aging — Age Page: Getting Your Affairs in Order, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A 6 page fact sheet, providing a checklist of important legal matters . . . → Read More: National Institute on Aging — Age Page: Getting Your Affairs in Order Comments are closed Checklists on Legal & Financial Issues, General Checklists, Legal Issues - Overview Questions & Answers When Looking For an Elder Law Attorney, By National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. (NAELA). Provides a checklist of some of the legal issues involved in elder law, as well as advice on how to . . . → Read More: Questions & Answers When Looking For an Elder Law Attorney A Guide to Legal Issues in Life-Limiting Conditions, by the American Health Lawyers Association. Found on the website of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Association. Discusses legal issues in end-of-life planning, as well as hospice care and issues . . . → Read More: A Guide to Legal Issues in Life-Limiting Conditions September 21, 2010. Orlando Sentinel. Most of Florida’s major health insurers have stopped writing new “child-only” insurance policies — some pulling out of the market just days before the health-care overhaul requires insurers to provide full coverage to kids . . . → Read More: ‘Child only’ health insurance dropped by all major insurers in Florida as new health insurance mandate takes effect. September 23, 2010. The initial provisions of the new health care law go into effect today. On this, the six-month anniversary of the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a number of its most central consumer . . . → Read More: For Many Families, Health Care Relief Begins Today under the New Health Reform Law Examples of State Laws on Guardianship, FindLaw.com. General description of the Guardianship laws in certain states, with links to further information and forms. View Information… Multi-State Guardianship Publications List – from “Guardianship Update,” by Sally Balch Hurme, American Bar Association Commission on Law & Aging. A bibliography of writings on guardianship laws and procedures by state. View Info.. State Durable Power of Attorney Laws, a resource by FindLaw.com, a website serving the legal industry and others doing legal research. Contains links to information on the durable power of attorney laws in each of the 50 States, with . . . → Read More: State Durable Power of Attorney Laws Campaign for Uniform Guardianship Jurisdiction Act, ABA Commission on Law & Aging. Website describes and contains links to new legislation proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the ABA Commission on Law & Aging. . . . → Read More: Campaign for Uniform Guardianship Jurisdiction Act WASHINGTON, DC – Press Release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote America’s Health Insurance Plans AHIP, the national association of health insurers, calling on their members . . . → Read More: Sebelius calls on health insurers to stop misinformation and unjustified rate increases Comments are closed Health Insurance, News On Health Care Reform, VoicesForCare™ - News & Updates on Health Care Reform A new 2010 study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research organization, found that health insurance premiums increased on average 3 percent from January to May, 2010, but because Employers were reducing their share of funding . . . → Read More: Employers Pushing Increased Share of Higher Health Insurance Costs on Employees Comments are closed Health Insurance, News On Health Care Reform, VoicesForCare™ - News & Updates on Health Care Reform Provides detailed information on what Medicare covers, how to enroll, and how to appeal denial of claims if necessary. Provided by a Nonprofit organization. Center for Medicare Advocacy. Check out this useful online search tool offered by the National Council on Aging to determine eligibility for 1,300 benefit programs that help pay for medications, health care, utilities and other elder care needs. BenefitsCheckUp – NCOAs Online Screening Service. The long-term care benefits promised in the Health Reform Law, though badly needed, are a long way off. Read more, as reported in the Washington Post: Read More>>Health-care overhaul: Long-term-care benefits are a long way . . . → Read More: Health-care overhaul: Long-term-care benefits are a long way off The US Department of Health & Human Services announced that it will be making grants to the States in a total amount of $51,000,000 in order to assiste the States in setting up the new competitive health insurance marketplaces required under the recently . . . → Read More: HHS Announces Availability of $51 Million in Resources for States to Build New Competitive Health Insurance Marketplace Comments are closed Health Insurance, News On Health Care Reform, VoicesForCare™ - News & Updates on Health Care Reform | |||||
