Elder Law

Kaiser Health News article explains how health reform bill affects Medicare

Posted on September 23, 2009
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/September/22/medicare-explainer-npr.aspx

CMS hosts listening session re Part D and Medicare Advantage open enrollment for 2010 plan year

Posted on September 23, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Invites you to the Listening Session to Learn About Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Open Enrollment 2010 Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:00 pm ? 3:00 pm, Eastern The Centers for Medicare &...

Biden, Sebelius issue report on health reform and seniors

Posted on September 23, 2009
Vice President Biden, Secretary Sebelius Issue New Report on Seniors and Health Insurance Reform Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today hosted a town hall meeting with seniors in Silver Spring, Md...

Hungary adoptes major revisions to adult guardianship laws

Posted on September 22, 2009
Courtesy the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre Budapest, 22 September 2009. Members of the Hungarian Parliament voted for a new Civil Code yesterday evening. In doing so they ensured that Hungary becomes the first country in the world to reform its...

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British High Court rejects claim that aid-in-dying is a basic human right

Posted on September 21, 2009
A British woman has lost her battle in the High Court, where she had sought clarification in the law on assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy, 45, who has multiple sclerosis, wanted a guarantee from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that...

Report says more that 35 million have dementia worldwide

Posted on September 21, 2009
More than 35 million people around the world are living with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, says the most in-depth attempt yet to assess the brain-destroying illness ? and it's an ominous forecast as the population grays. The...

Upcoming conferences on aging issues

Posted on September 21, 2009
October 2009 2009 National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA) Annual Conference October 6-7, 2009 Washington, DC http://www.nhcoa.org/conf/index.php?id=35 November 2009 Gerontological Society of America November 18-22 Atlanta, GA http://www.geron.org/Annual%20Meeting December 2009 International Council on Active Aging Conference December 2-5 Orlando, FL...

Academy of Special Needs Alliance hosts annual Attorneys Sharing Knowledge event Oct. 17

Posted on September 15, 2009
ACADEMY OF SPECIAL NEEDS PLANNERS TO HOLD ANNUAL ATTORNEYS SHARING KNOWLEDGE OCTOBER 17, 2009 One-Day Event for Attorneys Will Feature Instruction from National Experts on Drafting Special Needs Trusts The Academy of Special Needs Planners the largest membership organization for...

Guest blogger Adrienne Carlson on "What Doctors Need to Know When Treating the Elderly"

Posted on September 15, 2009
What Doctors Must Know When Treating the Elderly It?s not something that we want to think of consciously, but then, we must accept that growing old is a fact of life and that all of us will get there someday....

Guest blogger Hannah Watson on "Five Things to Consider When Building an Estate Plan After a Second Marriage"

Posted on September 13, 2009
Five Things to Consider When Building an Estate Plan After a Second Marriage Getting remarried can be a joyous event, but it can also make estate planning decidedly more complicated. Brining more people into your life can make it much...

The National Debt: Just the facts, ma'am

Posted on September 13, 2009
Source: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

News from the National Senior Citizens Law Center

Posted on September 12, 2009
Details about these stories are available at the NSCLC website, http://www.nsclc.org Social Security Administration to Pay $500 Million in Settlement, Stops Unlawful Social Security Suspensions The Social Security Administration has agreed to repay more than $500 million in benefits that...

CRS publishes annual update on pension sponsorship, participation, and trends

Posted on September 12, 2009
RL30122 Pension Sponsorship and Participation: Summary of Recent Trends September 11, 2009 Download Locations Open CRS (User submitted) Summary According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS), the number of private-sector workers between the ages of 25 and...

GAO study says SSA could work harder to reduced disability claim backlogs

Posted on September 12, 2009
(SSA) has experienced processing delays and significant backlogs of disability claims at the hearings level. In May 2007, SSA began implementing a plan for eliminating the hearings backlog entitled Summary of Initiatives to Eliminate the SSA Hearings Backlog (the Plan)...

Widener Call for Papers: Health Law and the Elderly: Managing Risk at the End of Life

Posted on September 09, 2009
Symposium and Call for Papers -- Health Law and the Elderly: Managing Risk at the End of Life The Widener Law Review, in partnership with the Widener University School of Law Health Law Institute, Delaware Hospice, the Delaware End-of-Life Coalition,...

ASA calls for proposals for graduate student research award

Posted on September 08, 2009
Recognizing Excellence in the Field of Aging ASA's 2010 Graduate Student Research Award Endowed by the AARP Andrus Foundation Call for Nominations Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 2009 The American Society on Aging is accepting applications for its annual award...

TOC: Caregiver Policy Digest

Posted on September 08, 2009
IN THIS ISSUE State Legislation, Policy & Reports Pennsylvania: Group Establishes Principles for LTC Policies More... Vermont: Advocates Want Changes to Choices for Care Program More... Federal Legislation, Policy & Reports Medicare Transitional Care Act Would Assist Caregivers More...

ACR offers free teleconference on elder mediation

Posted on September 04, 2009
The Association for Conflict Resolution will offer a FREE teleconference titled ?Elder Mediation Today: A Conversation with the Contributors to ACResolution Summer 2009 Issue.? The call will take place on Wednesday, September 16 at 3:00 pm EST. Participants will include...

New Census report shows distribution of veterans by state

Posted on September 04, 2009
Comparison of ACS and ASEC Data on Veteran Status and Period of Military Service: 2007 ? Focuses on comparisons of national and state distributions of veteran status and period of military service between the 2007 American Community Survey and the...

World's oldest dog dies at age 147 (dog years, that is)

Posted on September 01, 2009
The dog who hel d the record as the world's oldest has died at 21 years old, her owners have said. Chanel, a wire-haired dachshund, died on Friday aged 147 in "dog years", said owners Denice and Karl Shaughnessy, at...

Frolik on LTCI

Posted on August 31, 2009
Larry "the Dude" Frolik's article entitled "Long Term Care Insurance: Deal or No Deal" appeared in the Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning held at the University of Miami in January 2009. The article is now...

NYT editorials explains how current health care system affects families

Posted on August 30, 2009
"Critics fret that health care reform would undermine American family values, not least by convening somber death panels to wheel away Grandma as if she were Old Yeller. But peel away the emotions and fearmongering, and in fact it is...

Scare tactics are nothing new when it comes to health care reform

Posted on August 28, 2009
Via Kaiser Health News: Just like in earlier attempts to overhaul the American health system, opponents have turned to scare tactics, a strategy with a success rate in the history of blocking health reform, NPR reports. "It's really a case...

Kaplan on the end-of-life counseling provision in the health care reform bill

Posted on August 27, 2009
The University of Illinois website feature "A Minute With..." has just published an interview with Prof. Dick Kaplan on the end-of-life counseling provision in the health care reform bill. Here's an exerpt: "Proposed health-care reform has been sidetracked by uproar...

China admits to death-row organ harvesting

Posted on August 26, 2009
China is trying to move away from the use of executed prisoners as the major source of organs for transplants.According to the China Daily newspaper, executed prisoners currently provide two-thirds of all transplant organs. The government is now launching a...

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Posted on August 26, 2009
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Compassion & Choices hosts conference on End of Life Avocacy

Posted on August 26, 2009
Received from Kathryn Tucker: Compassion & Choices has spent many months planning its October Symposium on End of Life Advocacy. It?s October 13-14 at the National Press Club in Washington DC.The Symposium?s topics could not be more timely, now that....

Prof. Kaplan (IL) on retiree health benefits

Posted on August 24, 2009
Dick Kaplan's new article, coauthored with two former students, Nicholas Powers and Jordan Zucker, entitled ?Retirees at Risk: The Precarious Promise of Post-Employment Health Benefits,? was recently published in the YALE JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY, LAW, AND ETHICS and is...

NY Times article discusses palliative care

Posted on August 24, 2009
This is a must read. Excerpt: Most doctors do not excel at delivering bad news, decades of studies show, if only because it goes against their training to save lives, not end them. But Dr. O?Mahony, who works at Montefiore...

Kenny Heglund on the bogus "senior euthanisia" issue

Posted on August 23, 2009
Kenny Heglund of the University of Arizona writes: "While there is a lot about the fact that the opposition lies about section 1233, there is little why it is a terrific idea. As elder law profs I think we can...

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