We help you respond to all the legal issues created by aging, illness, chronic conditions or disability. Our team helps you protect your loved one’s interests and provide for dependents and other family members now and in the future.
Services include:
- Long-term care planning and nursing home issues
- Medicaid and Veterans benefits eligibility planning
- Asset protection
- Wills, trusts, Powers of Attorney, Advanced Directives
- Special Needs Trusts, Miller Trusts, Lady Bird Deeds
- Care coordination with a Geriatric Care Manager
- Care advocacy and crisis intervention
- Financial and health care decision support
- Medicare and insurance counseling
- Probate and estate administration
The right time to plan is before a crisis happens that will cause financial, emotional, and physical hardship on you, your loved one, and other family members.
Events that should signal your need to plan can be many. Examples of events that trigger the need to start planning are listed below. It may be months or a couple of years before it becomes a crisis, but this is why you need to start now.
- A diagnosis of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease or other chronic condition
- A catastrophic event such as a fall, medication mishap, fire, accident in the home or a car wreck
- Discovering that your loved one is wandering, malnourished, dehydrated or unable to care for him/herself due to functional limitations
- A medical event such as a stroke, heart attack or aneurism
- Burnout of the loved one’s primary caregiver
Pre-Crisis Planning ensures Peace of Mind Now and in the Future
Pre-Crisis Planning benefits you and your family in several important ways:
- It helps get your loved one the care he or she needs today, which offers welcome relief for caregivers.
- It plugs you into our network of community services and resources.
- It increases the chances that your loved one can age at home, which helps preserve independence and dignity.
- It puts all your legal and financial affairs in order.
- It enables your family to avoid the asset protection crisis when your loved one makes the transition to long-term care.
- It empowers you with a network of support that will help you deal with every legal, health care and long-term care transition that your elder will face for the rest of his or her life.
