Dealing with Your Aging Parents
A Primer for Lawyers Who Are Sons and Daughters but not Estate Practitioners, Elder Lawyers or Tax
Seminar Information
Date Presented:
May 15, 2008 5:25 PM Eastern
Seminar Location:
Atlanta Bar Association
Atlanta
Chairperson:
Laurin McSwain
Length:
2 hours
Aging is a Family Affair: Proactive Planning on the Care Side for Elder Family Members
  • Generational Differences- why discussing future planning is so hard with our elder relatives and clients.

  • Avoid crisis decision making- why having care conversations is so important!

  • How do you begin the conversation?- How to talk so elders will talk.

  • What type of "care conversations" do you need to have?

  • What do I do if my elder family member won't talk and is resisting help?
Speaker Information
Nancy Kriseman
Long-Term Care Financing Solutions
  • How do Medicare and Medicaid differ?

  • Will Medicare cover any long-term care?

  • What role does Medicaid play in getting help with:

  • Care in the home

  • Assisted living care

  • Nursing home care

  • What are the basic rules governing Medicaid eligibility?

  • How will Medicaid view gifts made prior to seeking assistance?

  • What is the status of Georgia's estate recovery program

  • Veterans Aid & Attendance- a relatively unknown benefit available to veterans and their widows that can help with home and assisted living care.
Speaker Information
Daniel D. Munster  [ view bio ]
Individual topic purchase: Selected
Georgia Bar
Total CLE Hours: 2.00
Total General Hours: 2.00