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Elder law

Elder law attorneys focus on the legal needs of the elderly, and work with a variety of legal tools and techniques to meet the goals and objectives of the older client. It covers everything from estate planning, wills, and trusts, to making arrangements for at home and nursing home care.

Elder law attorneys help their clients with their Medicaid, social security and retirement benefits. Elder law attorneys also help to ensure that their clients are protected against elder abuse (physical, emotional and financial). As more people live longer Elder Law has become an increasingly important field. Elder Law encompasses many different fields of law including:

• Medicare claims and appeals

• Medicaid

• Social security and disability claims and appeals

• Supplemental and long term health insurance issues.

• Disability planning, including use of durable powers of attorney, living trusts, "living wills," for financial management and health care decisions, and other means of delegating management and decision-making to another in case of incompetency or incapacity.

• Conservatorships and guardianships

• Estate planning, including planning for the management of one's estate during life and its disposition on death through the use of trusts, wills and other planning documents

• Probate

• Administration and management of trusts and estates

• Long-term care placements in nursing home and life care communities

• Nursing home issues including questions of patients' rights and nursing home quality

• Elder abuse and fraud recovery cases

• Housing issues, including discrimination and home equity conversions

• Age discrimination in employment

• Retirement, including public and private retirement benefits, survivor benefits and pension benefits

• Health law

• Mental health law

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