Adult Day Care as an Alternative
Adult Day Care is a wonderful alternative for families struggling with the care of an aging or disabled parent, spouse or loved one. Adult Day Care centers can also provide supervision and assistance each day for a senior who is not quite ready for assisted living or long term care. Each
Elder Law Podcast Show #7 Seniors and their Home
In the seventh installment of his podcast, Elder Law Today, Yale Hauptman focuses on seniors and their home. Sometimes the senior canât stay at home any longer. Yale discusses with Dan Yanofski, the owner of Elite Realtors of New Jersey, some of the challenges he faces in helping seniors sell their
Trying to Outsmart the Government
I had a call not too long ago from a woman who was concerned about avoiding probate and paying estate taxes upon her death. She had figured out, or so she thought, how she could solve both problems and wanted confirmation from me that it would work. She had written
Elder Law Podcast Show #6 Long Term Care Planning – Are You Prepared?
In the sixth installment of his podcast, Elder Law Today, Yale Hauptman invitesguests Heidi Rinsky Schnapp and Lisa Cook Bayer of Life Management Resources, an elder care consulting firm and Gregory W. Bushwell, of B & M Brokerage Services, a long term care insurance specialist to a roundtable discussion on
How to Stay Out of a Nursing Home
A recent study of long term care shows that the percentage of elderly Americans living in nursing homes is on the decline. This appears to be in part because of improved health and partly because of more choices. According to census statistics, 7.4% of Americans 75 and older lived in
Elder Law Today Show #5 VA Aid and Attendance – The Best Kept Secret in Long Term Care
In the fifth installment of his podcast, Elder Law Today, Yale Hauptman, takes Elder Law Today on the road to a Caregiving Symposium he spoke at recently. Yale interviews a geriatric care manager, a contractor who makes modifies homes for the elderly and other vendors who attended the
Paid Family Leave
Two weeks ago New Jersey became the third state (California and Washington being the others) to pass into law a bill requiring companies to offer paid leave to employees. The benefit will operate in a similar fashion to state disability benefits in that all employees will contribute an additional amount from their paychecks to
Elder Law Today Show #4 Long Term Care Planning – The Way to Avoid Nursing Home Care
In the fourth installment of his podcast, Elder Law Today, Yale Hauptman, a practicing New Jersey elder law attorney, discusses how long term care planning actually decreases the likelihood of ever needing nursing home care. Learn how the long term care system actually works to push people towards nursing
Negative Inheritance
A term that has come into increasing usage is "negative inheritance". It describes the situation where an adult child, rather than receiving an inheritance when a parent dies, instead spends his/her own money to cover the parent's long term care needs because the parent has run out of money. It
Elder Law Today Podcast #3 Live Call in
In the third installment of his podcast, Elder Law Today, Yale Hauptman, a practicing New Jersey elder law attorney, answers listenersâ questions by phone and email. Yale corrects common misconceptions people have about some of the basic legal issues facing seniors today. For example, Yale explains that making