Elder Law Practice Blog
Learn About Nursing Homes, Medicaid, And How To Protect Your Loved Ones Assets
Nursing Home Cost in Arkansas
The National Average is over $100k/year... Thankfully, however, we live in Arkansas. According to seniorliving.org, at the time of writing (2022), the average cost of Nursing Home Care in Arkansas is just under $7,000/month for a private room. That's about $84k/year....
Sustainable Financial Planning: Defending Your Financial Legacy
Updated November 23, 2022 How Long Can We Make Our Money Last? Here in Arkansas, parents strive to raise their children right, and to leave a financial legacy for their children. Today, I want to take you on a journey. We are going to take a trip to Farmville, USA. We...
Distance: 5 Tips when You’re “Too Far” to Help
What Mattie Did To Help From A Distance In our last blog, we discussed Beth’s story. Beth was a local family caregiver, doing everything, all the time. Today we discuss Mattie’s Story, which is a story of a caring caregiver who lives at a distance. Mattie is a very...
Trying to Do Everything in Mom’s Time of Need
Trying the Do Everything Option This is the second scenario regarding how Family Caregivers respond to the needs of their declining parent. Last week we discussed Adam’s method, which was doing nothing. Today we discuss Beth, who takes the polar opposite approach....
Alzheimer’s Planning at Different Stages
Alzheimer's Planning is not something that any of us want to think about. Alzheimer’s is a cruel disease. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease. Another statistic they have shared with us is that 11 million...
Facility vs. Faculty – Making Your Choice
You Get To Choose! Facility of faculty? Many of our readers caught my boo-boo in a recent edition of our caregiver newsletter, Caregiver Connection. This was not the first or only boo-boo that I have ever made. It was, however, the first one that I made on that...
Medicare vs. Medicaid
As we all inch closer and closer to the benchmark of age 65 and start thinking of things like Medicare, Medicare Supplements, Medicare Advantage Plans, Medicaid and a few "medi’s" that I’m probably omitting. It’s no wonder that we are confused! Whoever was in charge...
Disabled from Birth: How to Secure His Future
Worried About a Disabled Child - Even After You Go to a Nursing Home! John & Mary Sample (our fictional heroes for today) live in Central Arkansas. They are now in their mid-70s and they just celebrated their 50th anniversary. The Samples have been blessed with...
Pivot Planning – When You’re Caught Off-Guard
What Will You Do When? We see the need for Pivot Planning all the time. Mom or Dad is enjoying their retirement and things are well with the family. Then one of them suffers an unexpected health event. Everyone is caught off guard and no one knows what to do. But...