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Memory Loss / Alzheimer's Disease / Dementia / Stroke
- Free Living Will and Advance Medical Directive
- Don't Hesitate When the Diagnosis is Alzheimer's, Dementia, Stroke or Memory Loss
- Alzheimer's disease is the "great unlearning"
- Brains Actually Inprove With Age & Are More Shrewd
- Brain Plasticity and Recovery From Stroke
Medicaid Planning / Asset Protection
- Illinois about to "Lawfully Mug" seniors
- The Case Against Do-It-Yourself Estate Planning, Simply Stated, Is Like a Do-it-Yourself Lobotomy
- New DRA Medicaid Rules Threaten Life Estates
- Paying for Institutionalized Spouse's Care
Life Care Planning
- Help for Seniors - Professional Geriatric Care Managers
- Take Health Care Off The Mainframe
- What "Patient-Centered" Care Should Mean
- Keeping Mom and Dad Safe at Home
Special Needs & Disability Planning
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- Posted on 9/26/2010Community Outreach Continuing Education...
- Posted on 9/1/2010Don't Die Without a Will or Trust...
- Posted on 7/15/2010Secrets to Qualifying for Illinois Medicaid & Veterans' Benefits...
- Posted on 7/13/2010Free Seminar on New Illinois Medicaid rules to implement DRA...
- Posted on 5/29/2010Press Release - National Elder Law Month...
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Memory Loss / Alzheimer's Disease / Dementia / Stroke
- Older Brains vs. Younger Brains
- When the Diagnosis is Alzheimer's, Dementia, Stroke, or Memory Loss Don't Hesitate
- 10 Million Boomers Will Develop Alzheimer's
- Supportive Living Program
Medicaid Planning / Asset Protection
- New Medicaid Rules may "Lawfully Mug" You
- New Illinois Medicaid Rules Threaten Life Estates
- New Law Threatens Seniors
- Words to the Wise - Protect Yourself . . . Now!
- Medicaid Planning, Life Estates and Tax Basis Rules
Veterans' Benefits
- Military Veterans Entitled to Care Options, and $23,396 to Qualifying Veteran Household
- VA Benefits for War-Time Veterans & Widows Are Not Tied To Service-Connected Disability
- Veterans Administration Gives Money to Veterans and Their Widow(er)s to Pay for Care At-Home or in Assisted Living
- Veterans Benefits and Medicaid Secret # 2
- VA Gives Veterans Money to Pay for Elder Care Services at Home
Life Care Planning
- Avoid Disagreements Between Your Health Care and Property POA
- Life Care Planning & Long Life
- The Elder Care Journey
- Keeping Mom & Dad Safe at Home
- Are Children Legally Responsible For Their Parents' Care?
Hospice Planning
- Institutions Can Be Insensitive About Death
- Don't delay. Plan now so you and your loved ones will not risk a Schiavo-like fate. Call 618-549-4529 or toll-free 800-336-4529 TODAY to begin the process.
Special Needs & Disability Planning
- What Personal Injury Attorneys Need To Know
- Multi-Generational Planning Part 1
- Multi-Generational Planning Part 2
- How To Care For a Blind or Disabled Child
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Memory Loss - Legal Survival Guide
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Habiger & Associates Elder Law Office (HAELO) provides legal services to elderly or disabled persons in Southern Illinois. The founder of the firm, Richard Habiger, is an elder law attorney with more than 30 years experience. We are an Elder Law and Life Care Planning Law Firm that provides legal and care coordination assistance, including: Medicaid planning; asset protection; estate protection; Medicaid applications; Medicaid appeals; VA pension benefits planning and applications for veterans and their surviving spouses; planning for those with Alzheimer's, dementia, or other forms of memory loss, and those who have suffered a stoke; Hospice planning; and special needs planning, including special needs trusts and supplemental needs trusts.
HAELO is located in Carbondale Illinois, and serves clients in twenty-seven Southern Illinois counties south of Interstate 70 highway. Southern Illinois Counties: Jackson County, Williamson County, Union County, Franklin County, Perry County, Saline County, Jefferson County, Hamilton County, Johnson County, Randolph County, Wayne County, White County, Washington County, Edwards County, Monroe County, Wabash County, Richland County, Clay County, Marion County, Clinton County, Bond County, Fayette County, Effingham County, Jasper County, Crawford County, Massac County, Pulaski County, Alexander County, Pope County, Hardin County, Gallatin County, and Lawrence County.
Southern Illinois Cities & Towns: Carbondale, Murphysboro, Carterville, Herrin, Marion, Anna, Vienna, Metropolis, Harrisburg, West Frankfort, DuQuoin, Benton, Chester, Pinckneyville, Mt. Vernon, McLeansboro, Carmi, Fairfield, Nashville, Waterloo, Centralia, Salem, Albion, Mt. Carmel, Flora, Olney, Lawrenceville, Newton, Robinson, Jonesboro, Eldorado, Shawneetown, Ridgway, Sparta, Golconda, Johnston City, Marissa, Coulterville, Carlyle, Ullin, Tamms, Elizabethtown, Galatia, Wayne City, Cobden, Lake of Egypt, Goreville, Brookport, Olive Branch, Cave-in-Rock, Carrier Mills, Energy, Cambria, Zeigler, Royalton, Christopher, Rosiclare, Sesser, Okawville, Woodlawn, Thompsonville, Steeleville, Raleigh, Olmsted, Baldwin, Villa Ridge, Mounds, Tunnel Hill, Red Bud, Trenton, New Baden, Ewing, Dix, Norris City, Creal Spring, Bridge Port, Sumner, Waltonville, Breese, Aviston, Germantown, Whittington, Vandalia, and Ina.
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Physical Address
2010 West Woodriver Drive
Suite 100
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Phone: 618-549-4529
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Mailing Address
200 North Emerald Lane
Suite 100
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Phone: 618-549-4529
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Physical Address
2010 West Woodriver Drive
Suite 100
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Phone: 618-549-4529
Mailing Address
200 North Emerald Lane
Suite 100
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Phone: 618-549-4529
FAQs
Medicaid Planning / Asset Protection
- Are your Medicaid-related asset protection strategies really "legal and ethical"?
- If you can really do this, how come I have never heard about this before?
- But my caseworker / nursing home intake person / friend / beautician / other advisor has told me rules that are much different than what you are saying. How can you be so sure that you're right?
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Testimonials
- Thank you for your excellent leadership and many insights at the Young At Heart Seminar at United Methodist Church of Murphysboro on July 13.
- I appreciate all you have done over the years to help make this transition simpler for our family.Janice Cherry
- Thank you for taking the time to talk to my sister concerning my Dad.Sharon B.
- You were always there for me and I never felt you were just doing your jobs, your hearts were really in it. If not for you, I don’t think I could have gotten through the most trying time of my life.S.W.
- Thank you so much for getting my mom and dad’s affairs in order. If there is one thing that I could tell others it would be to plan ahead and seek your counsel early. C.D.