Most of us spend little time thinking about death or losing the capacity to manage our own affairs. These are unpleasant topics and banishing them from our minds is easier than entertaining them. Death, however, is inevitable and becoming incapacitated…
Takeaways Financial worries are a major contributor to stress. Proactive estate planning, such as creating a will, is one way to help reduce stress and provide a sense of control over one’s future. Stress can negatively affect mental and physical…
How can veterans use their Department of Veterans Affairs benefits to pay for long-term care? The answer is, as with most governmental things, complicated. A much-underused pension benefit known as Aid and Attendance can provide some money to cover costs…
We all aspire to live a long and healthy life, and senior citizens are admired for their wisdom. However, their long life often comes with the grief of outliving their spouses, friends, and sometimes their children. If they cannot maintain…
As the veteran population in the United States increases - currently, almost 19 million- new programs for health, education, housing, and other benefits have been created. VA disability payments are one of the most common entitlements veterans overlook yet are…
In Florida, Michael was enjoying the summer while he awaited the closing of his Texas house. Unfortunately, he took a bad fall and ended up in a Florida hospital. He had his Texas powers of attorney, but the problem was…
Disability benefits, such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid, are only available to people who are extremely poor or who possess properties that are restricted by restrictive trusts. Federal legislation now permits disabled people to set up their own…
For estate planning, a wide variety of trust types are available; the most common are revocable and irrevocable trusts. While there is some similarity, these two major categories of trusts have different purposes in your estate plan. Both can substitute…
You may want to think again if you believed Medicaid planning meant only meeting strict income and asset limits to qualify for long-term care. You will also need to demonstrate you need the level of care typically provided in a…
AduhelmTM is the first Alzheimer's drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2003. The drug, Aducanumab, is a therapeutic drug that clinically demonstrates a potential to delay further decline from Alzheimer's disease and is also the first…