Elder Law

Jeffrey Baker Faulkner) featured in "spirit profile"

Posted on January 20, 2009
Jeffrey Baker, Associate professor of law and director of clinical studies at Faulkner University's Jones School of Law; director of Jones Elder Law Clinic and the Family Violence Clinic, was recently profiled in the Montogomery (AL) Advertiser. He was nominated...

News from the National Senior Citizens Law Center

Posted on January 16, 2009
National Senior Citizens Law Center Los Angeles, CA | Oakland, CA | Washington, DC January 15, 2009 Listed below are highlights of NSCLC?s work since our last update. You can find out more on our website: http://www.nsclc.org/whats_new ?Please Hold?: Medicare...

ALCA hosts free Webinar on fire safety in assisted living

Posted on January 15, 2009
Please join the Assisted Living Consumer Alliance (www.assistedlivingconsumers.org) for our first webinar of 2009 ? Fire Safety in Assisting Living. Our three speakers, experts in their fields, will discuss fire safety from regulatory, safety, and consumer perspectives...

SANDELL GRANT PROGRAM DEADLINE REMINDER: Jan. 30

Posted on January 13, 2009
ANDELL GRANT PROGRAM DEADLINE REMINDER The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College is currently accepting submissions for the 2009 Steven H. Sandell Grant Program. * The Sandell Program provides the opportunity for junior scholars from a wide variety of...

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SSA now offers online enrollment for beneficiaries

Posted on January 08, 2009
To deal with the influx of baby boomer applicants, the Social Security Administration has moved the enrollment process to its website, where retirees can sign up for Social Security payments and Medicare. ?There's no need to drive to a local...

Annals of Health Law Launches Online Journal and Blog

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Annals of Health Law is proud to announce its online counterpart, Advanced Directive: Bringing You the Latest Developments in Health Law. Advanced Directive provides timely student articles on a variety of cutting-edge health law topics. To view the first...

Not elder law: 4300 year old mummy unearthed

Posted on January 08, 2009
Egyptologists have discovered the remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief has said. The body of Queen Seshestet was found in a recently-discovered pyramid in Saqqara, Zahi Hawass announced....

SSRN adds new Elder Law Studies Network

Posted on January 08, 2009
We are pleased to announce a new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal -- Elder Law Studies. ELDER LAW STUDIES View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Elder-Law-Studies.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Elder-Law-Studies Editor: Nina Kohn, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University - College of Law Sponsor: The...

NAELA Student Elder Law Writing Competition opens March 1

Posted on January 06, 2009
The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys is pleased to present the Fourth Annual NAELA Elder Law Writing Competition offering a $1,500 cash prize for the best article submitted. The winner will be honored at a national NAELA conference in...

Elder law pioneer Clifton Kruse dies at age 74

Posted on January 05, 2009
Clifton Bryan Kruse, Jr., 74, passed away surrounded by his family on December 30, 2008, from complications of Alzheimer's disease. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in 1956, and his graduate degree in theology from...

CRS publishes report on Part B premiums

Posted on January 05, 2009
R40082 Medicare: Part B Premiums December 29, 2008 Medicare beneficiaries have out-of-pocket cost-sharing requirements that differ according to the services hey receive. Physician and outpatient services provided under Part B are financed through a combination of beneficiary premiums, deductibles, and...

Number of Americans With a Disability Reaches 54.4 Million

Posted on December 23, 2008
About one in five U.S. residents - 19 percent - reported some level of disability in 2005, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today. These 54.4 million Americans are roughly equal to the combined total populations of California...

Senior hotline newsletter now on line

Posted on December 23, 2008
The Center for Elder Rights Advocacy, the new technical assistance for senior legal helplines and a partner in the National Legal Resource Center, is producing an electronic newsletter, The Legal Helplines Connection, every other month to keep you informed of...

Cost of 12 days of Christmas up 11% from 2007

Posted on December 19, 2008
http://climate.weather.com/articles/slideshows/12xmas2008.html?from=pif_locallinker_travelcm_ven=MKTGcm_cat=HousePromocm_pla=LocLinkcm_ite=FEref=/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/55408 I have to say, though, I can't figure out how they came up with only $52 for eight maids a-milking...

GAO recommends improvements in SSA's collection of disability related medical reports

Posted on December 18, 2008
The timely collection of relevant medical evidence from providers, such as physicians and psychologists, is key to the Social Security Administration (SSA) process for deciding whether an estimated 2.5 million new claimants each year have impairments that qualify them to...

New credit card rules will help some seniors

Posted on December 18, 2008
In the most sweeping changes to credit cards in decades, federal regulators on Thursday approved new rules to crack down on so-called unfair and deceptive practices by card issuers, such as raising interest rates on existing debt. The rules, issued...

Elder law pioneer Ann Pecora dies at age 62

Posted on December 18, 2008
Anne Pecora, a pioneering academic in the elder law arena, died Monday Dec. 15. Ann was the founder and director of the Elder Law Representation Project of Baltimore City during 1975-92 as a clinical law program at the University of...

Not elder law: Found! World's oldest spider web

Posted on December 16, 2008
he tiny tangled threads of the world's oldest spider web have been found encased in a prehistoric piece of amber, a British scientist said Monday. Oxford University paleobiologist Martin Brasier said the 140-million-year-old webbing provides evidence that arachnids had been...

This just in: 2008 No. 3 NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health

Posted on December 16, 2008
Available at http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/2008no3/2008no3.pdf TOC: The 2008 No. 3 Bulletin includes the articles below: 1) The Past and Future of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act by David Neumark http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/2008no3/w14317...

GAO report recommends improvements to Part D beneficiary information strategies

Posted on December 16, 2008
In Medicare Part D, enrollees in stand-alone prescription drug plans (PDPs) are allowed to switch plans during an annual coordinated election period (AEP) set under law from November 15 to December 31, with new coverage effective January 1. The Centers...

Vol. !, Issue 1 of Canadian Journal on Elder Law published

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Canadian Centre for Elder Law, a Division of the British Columbia Law Institute, has released the first issue of the Canadian Journal of Elder Law (CJEL). The journal is the first Canadian peer?reviewed journal focused on elder law issues,...

Did you know: Monthly Social Security Bulletin: the scholarly journal of SSA

Posted on December 15, 2008
Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 68 No. 3 Printed copies of this document are scheduled for release in late December 2008. The Effects of Wage Indexing on Social Security Disability Benefits by L. Scott Muller Researchers David Autor and Mark Duggan...

GSU seeks attorney to work on health disparity issues

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Georgia State University College of Law seeks an attorney to work as a Health Disparities Fellow in a community collaboration called the Health Law Partnership (HeLP), under a grant received under the Georgia Health Equity Initiative of the Georgia...

Highlights from NSCLC reports and articles now online

Posted on December 12, 2008
Happy Holidays from all of us at the National Senior Citizens Law Center! Here are highlights from recent reports and articles. You can find more on the NSCLC website: http://www.nsclc.org/whats_new --NSCLC Agenda: A Call to Action This is NSCLC's "to-do...

New GAO report discusses Medicare Advantage plans' actual vs. projected profits

Posted on December 12, 2008
Surprise! These plans made 50% higher profits than they "thought" they would. Summary of the report: On average, MA organizations reported earning profits of 6.6 percent of total revenue in 2006?which was higher than their projected profits of 4.1 percent...

Wake Forest elder law clinic's fall e-newsletter online NOW!

Posted on December 10, 2008
Among the top stories this edition: The Grand Prix and the Grandpa Alyse Herrington reviewed a lawsuit filed against her client for nonpayment of a car loan. This gentleman's granddaughter had bad credit, so he had helped by co-signing on...

Recent posts of interest on Elder Abuse Prevention Blog

Posted on December 10, 2008
Powers of Attorney, Elder Justice, Help Hiring Helpers, and No More Minnesota Nice I like the latter in particular: No More ?Minnesota Nice" As a native Minnesotan, I got a kick out of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety?s anti-scam...

Today is 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Posted on December 09, 2008
Courtesy Amercian Medical Students' Association: Dec 10, 2008 is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The United Nations General Assembly adopted the declaration on Dec. 10, 1948, and it stands as a foundational document for...

New CRS report discusses Medicaid regs affected by moratorium

Posted on December 08, 2008
RL34764 Medicaid Regulatory Issues November 26, 2008 Download Locations: Open CRS (User submitted) Summary:This report provides a summary of seven proposed and final rules affecting the Medicaid program that were issued by the Bush Administration during 2007 and 2008...

Sunny Von Bulow dead after 28 years in coma

Posted on December 06, 2008
US heiress Martha von Bulow, who spent almost three decades in a coma but was still at the centre of 1980s courtroom dramas, has died at the age of 76.Mrs von Bulow, known as Sunny, was found unconscious in her...

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