Creating a safe home care plan for a loved one with dementia
For many senior citizens, being able to “age in place” and stay in their home is a really high priority. The obligation to use Medicaid dollars to support aged and disabled individuals in the least restrictive environment has been a cornerstone of federal policy since the Olmstead decision was issued by the Supreme Court in 1999. In addition to that there is the obligation to...
Yeah But Can We Preserve the Millennium Falcon for Chewbacca’s Benefit?
Elder Law has really broken out into mainstream popular culture this year! There was the first season of Better Call Saul, where the attorney who would be Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad gets into elder law and sues an assisted living facility in New Mexico. And now, on the heels of the new Star Wars Trilogy coming out, we have a galactic elder law fact pattern with a script spec called Old...