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• Assisted Living Company Begins Purge of Residents on Medicaid
• Caregiving Stress - Hazardous to Your Health and Sometimes Deadly
• Feds Finally Release Complete List of Deficient Nursing Homes
• Feds Publish List of 54 Poorest-Performing Nursing Homes
• Getting the Government to Pay Family Caregivers
• Group Forms to Advocate on Behalf of Assisted Living Residents
• Harmful Nursing Homes Largely Escape Penalties, Report Finds
• Home Health Agency Care
• Hospice Care
• How to Choose A Nursing Home
• Identifying and Dealing With Financial Abuse of the Elderly
• Is It Time For a Life Insurance Audit?
• Law Enacted Offering Caregivers Some Relief
• Nursing Home Assessed for Failing to Honor Patients with Living Will
• Nursing Home Quality Twenty Years After the Nursing Home Reform Act
• Nursing Home Room Now Averages $75,000 A Year, Study Finds
• "Parenting" Our Parents
• Retirement Home Resident Fights Move to Increased Level of Care
• The Best Health Care System in America
• Use of Nursing Home Restraints Has Declined
• Using A Professional Care Manager
• Medical Care at the End-Of-Life
• Should You Sign a Nursing Home Admission Agreement?
• Strategies to Reduce Caregiver Stress
• Study Suggests Medicaid-Sponsored Home Care Reduces Nursing Home Use

• 10 Million Boomers Will Develop Alzheimer's, Report Predicts
• Aging and the Boston Red Sox
• Avoid Sibling Disputes Over Caregiving By Putting It in Writing
• Department of Commerce Offers up to $80 to Help Seniors and Others Convert to HDTV
• Do I Qualify for Elder Law?
• Economic Stimulus Payments Not Income for SSI or Part D Help
• Elder Law - HALF a Penny for Your thoughts
• Elder Law - Having Faith in the Law
• Elder Law - Help for Long Term Care Planning
• Elder Law - Imagine the Death of the Big Bad Wolf
• GAO Study Finds Transfers by Elderly are Infrequent and Small
• Home Health Agency Care
• How a Guardian Is Appointed
• How Will The New Congress Affect Key Elder Law Issues?
• Is It Better to Remarry or Just Live Together?
• Lawsuits Claim Elderly Should Be Protected From Their Bad Decisions
• Life Settlements: Cash for Your Life Insurance Policy
• Make Sure Your Plan Beneficiaries Are Up To Date
• SEC Finds Fraud at Investment Seminars for Seniors
• Senior Centers May Be Liable for Aiding Elder Financial Abuse
• Seniors Relocation and Real Estate Services
• Shady Pines - Rock N' Roll Style
• Social Security Benefits
• Social Security Benefits to Rise 2.3 Percent
• Spouses' Guesses About End-of-Life Wishes Not Always Accurate
• States Go After Living Trust Scams
• The Top 10 Health Care Mistakes Made By The Elderly
• Using a Consultant to Obtain the Veterans Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit
• Using a Consultant to Obtain the Veterans Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit
• Welcome to Boston, AARP
• When Getting Financial Advice, Don't Be Fooled by Impressive-Sounding Credentials
• Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?

• Continuing Care Retirement Community Options Are Growing
• Elder Law - Help for Long Term Care Planning
• Feds Launch New Website Promoting LTC Planning
• Guide to Long Term Care Planning
• Hidden Government Program Pays the Cost of Home Care
• How Would the Presidential Candidates Make Long-Term Care More Affordable?
• IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2008
• Life Insurance Annuities for Long Term Care Planning
• Long Term Care - An Impending Crisis for the Elderly
• Long-Term Care Benefits for Veterans and Surviving Spouses
• Long Term Care Insurance
• Long-Term Care Insurance Giant Raises Premiums on Existing Customers for First Time
• LTC Insurance Partnership Program Will Allow More Policyholders To Exceed Medicaid's Asset Limits
• Long-Term Care in a Post-DRA World: Understanding How the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Changes Medi
• Medicaid Rules for Long Term Care
• Most Misunderstand LTC Costs and Coverage, AARP Survey Finds
• New Insurance Offers Coverage In Case of Long Life
• Nursing Home Abolitionist Offers Homelike Alternative
• Should You Sign a Nursing Home Admission Agreement?
• The 4 Steps of Long Term Care Planning
• The Problem with Government Long Term Care
• Tightening Medicaid Will Not Increase LTC
• Using Annuities for Long-Term Care Planning
• Veterans Long Term Care Benefits
• What Nursing Home Staff Levels Are Required

• Amounts Spouses of Medicaid Recipients May Keep in 2008 Are Released
• Annuity Payable Solely to Community Spouse Not Available to Institutionalized Spouse
• Assisted Living Company Begins Purge of Residents on Medicaid
• Family Care Agreements: More Findings from the DRA Implementation Survey
• Findings from the DRA Implementation Survey: Other Techniques
• GAO Study Finds Transfers by Elderly are Infrequent and Small
• It's Official: Draconian New Medicaid Transfer Rules Enacted
• Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Constitutionality of DRA
• LTC Insurance Partnership Program Will Allow More Policyholders To Exceed Medicaid's Asset Limits
• Long-Term Care in a Post-DRA World: Understanding How the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Changes Medi
• Medicaid Agency's Residency Requirement Violates U.S. Constitution
• Medicaid Commissions Releases Report
• Medicaid Costs Down Medicare Costs Up
• Medicaid Planning
• Medicaid Proposes Allowing Recipients to Direct Own Home Care
• Medicaid Recovery of Home Catches Many Families By Surprise
• Medicaid Rules for Long Term Care
• Medicaid Transfer Laws
• No Equitable Relief for Man Who Transferred Assets in Order to Defraud Medicaid
• Panel Announces Recommendations for Medicaid Reform
• Receiving an Inheritance While on Medicaid
• Review of Recent Changes to Medicaid
• SOL Bars State's Medicaid Claims Against Decedents' Estates
• Tightening Medicaid Will Not Increase LTC
• Understanding Medicaid Planning Opportunities For Your Clients and You
• Understanding the Linkage Between Reverse Mortgages, Medicaid and SSI
• Jointly-Owned Savings Bonds Available to Medicaid Applicant
• Medicaid
• Planning For Medicaid
• Transfer of Assets to Spouse for Medicaid Planning Creates Constructive Trust

• About New Medicare Plans
• Beware of Medicare Part D Scammers
• Coordinating Medicare and Employment Coverage
• Court Rules Medicare Must Make Doctor Performance Data Public
• Democrats Plan to Tackle Part D
• How Medicare Beneficiaries Can Fight a Hospital Discharge
• Medicaid Costs Down Medicare Costs Up
• Medicare Continue to Reduce Improper Claims Payments
• Medicare Drug Plan Prices to Increase After All
• Medicare Handbook Controversy
• Medicare Open Enrollment Season Has Begun
• Medicare Part D Enrollment Begins November 15
• New Medicare Premium, Deductible, and Coinsurance Charges for 2008
• Nursing Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Can Be Too Good To Be True
• Private Medicare Plans Accused of Using Shady Marketing Tactics
• Survey Reveals Serious Flaws with Medicare Advantage Plans
• New Notice Rules Help Medicare Beneficiaries Fight a Hospital Discharge

• Forward on Reverse: A Conversation with Elder Law Attorney John Gosselin: Part I
• Forward on Reverse: Traps for the Wary: Reverse Mortgages and Healthcare Benefits
• Forward on Reverse: Traps for the Wary: Reverse Mortgages and Healthcare Benefits
• National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association Releases 2nd Quarter RMMI Results
• Report, Senate Hearing Highlight Successes, Problems with Reverse Mortgages
• Reverse Mortgage - A Happy Pill?
• Reverse Mortgage Alphabet Soup - FHA; HECM; MIP; NRMLA; H.R. 1852
• Reverse Mortgage - Forward Thinking
• Reverse Mortgage Company Chicken Dinner
• For Seniors Finally Something They Really Can Reverse: Their Mortgages
• Reverse Mortgage: Reverse Mortgage Mayhem and Irish Redemption
• Reverse Mortgage Loans
• All Hail Reverse Mortgages! Alia Acta Est!
• Reverse Mortgages - It's Prime Time for Reverse Mortgages
• Reverse Mortgages - Mortgages are Mortgages, Right?