by Christine | Apr 22, 2014 | Alzheimer's, Dementia, Elder Law, Estate Planning |
Alzheimer’s patients live for years with diminished mental skills, which makes it crucial that they make decisions early on about how their care should proceed. Planning for one’s estate and for one’s late-in-life plans requires more than a bit of wherewithal. This is...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2014 | Alzheimer's, Dementia, Elder Care, Elder Law |
"Understanding that AD may contribute to almost as many deaths as the two leading killers in America, heart disease and cancer, is an eye-opening figure that may convince the public and policy makers that AD funding should be increased," James said. As you...
by Christine | Dec 16, 2013 | Dementia, Elder Law, Medical Directives |
Often, proxies are confused about how “do not hospitalize” orders work. Several proxies believed, mistakenly, that a such an order was equivalent to a request to withhold medical intervention altogether. For elderly loved ones in nursing homes, there is a very...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2013 | Alzheimer's, Dementia, Elder Law, Estate Planning |
"Family members are already on emotional overload—adding a financial and legal decision aspect to what they're already going through is enormous," said Carol Steinberg, president of Alzheimer's Foundation of America, a national nonprofit focused on...
by Christine | Jul 13, 2012 | Conservatorships, Dementia, Estate Planning, Incapacity |
A conservatorship is “a court proceeding to appoint a manager (Conservator) for the financial affairs and/or the personal care of one who is either physically or mentally unable to handle either one or both (Conservatee).”...
by Christine | May 21, 2012 | Alzheimer's, Dementia, Elder Law, Estate Planning |
In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer’s, people who are genetically guaranteed to develop the disease — but who do not yet have any symptoms — will, for the first time, be given a drug intended to stop it, federal officials announced...
