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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 / 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
- Stroke is a Major Factor in Nursing Home Admissions
- General
- Free Living Wills in Honor of National Elder Law Month
- Estate Planning Traps and Pitfalls
- The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
- Bankruptcy Can Be An Estate Management Tool
- Include your Digital Assets in Your Estate Planning
- Don't forget your Digital Assets when doing your Estate Planning
- Taking Care of Digital Assets
- The Estate Tax is Not Dead
- Lawsuit claims LegalZoom is Unfair & Misleading
- A Word About Ethics & Confidentiality
- Take your Medicine…it’s Good for You and Your Loved Ones
- Buying Tires vs. Legal Services
- Take a A Positive Step
- LegalZoom is Not the Answer
- When Good Estate Plans Go Bad
- Pet of the Month
- Elder Law attorney attends client's 99th Birthday Party
- Elder Law Planning is Like an Elephant that Must be "Eaten One Bite At A Time"
- Special Forces or the Whole Army?
- Learn So You Don't Get Burned...
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- Memory Loss / Alzheimer's Disease / Dementia / Stroke
- Medicaid Planning / Asset Protection
- Veterans' Benefits
- Life Care Planning
- Hospice Planning
- Special Needs & Disability Planning
News
- Community Outreach Continuing Education
- Don't Die Without a Will or Trust
- Secrets to Qualifying for Illinois Medicaid & Veterans' Benefits
- Free Seminar on New Illinois Medicaid rules to implement DRA
- Press Release - National Elder Law Month
- Effects of Dementia on Functioning and Judgment
- Elder Law Seminar
- Elder Law attorney available for presentations to groups
- Elder Law Update Continuing Education Course
- Free Seminar at Supportive Living Facility
- Elder law firm announces Pet of the Month contest
- Presentation to students at SIU School of Allied Health
- "Santa" Richard Habiger visists residents at Supportive LivingFacility
- Team HAELO at 2007 Alzheimer's Memory Walk
- Team HAELO at Alzheimer's Memory Walk 2005
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- 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
- Call for free consultation before signing a nursing home admission agreement.
- Nursing Home Resident’s Representative May be Liable
- Get Medicaid Out of Long-Term Care
- Life Estates & Medicaid Secret # 1
- Cost of Long-Term Care Continues to Rise
- Feds Target Nursing Homes That Need Increased Oversight
- Help for Unsung Heroes
- Medicare Drug Plan: Important Deadline Looming
- What is Required of an Executor?
- Using Annuities for Long Term Care Planning
- Efforts to Encourage LTC Insurance Purchases Falling Flat
- “Put Granny On The Street” Law
- The Top 10 Elder Law Court Rulings in 2006
- Medicaid Recovery of Home Catches Many Families By Surprise
- Family Farms Threatened by Medicaid Reforms
- Protecting Your Home From Medicaid and Nursing Homes
- More News You Can Use on Annuities Under the Deficit Reduction Act
- Mitch and Regina’s Rainy Day Fund
- Innocent Seniors Take a Medicaid Hit
- Hardship Waivers – A Safety-Net or an Illusion?
- The Only Certainties Are Death, Taxes, and Change
- New Law Poses Problems For Nursing Home & Assisted Living Residents
- Not So Fast: Typo in New Medicaid Law Creates Confusion
- Adult Children Could Be On Hook For Parents’ Nursing Home Bills
- School Districts Will Be Hurt
- Health Care and Flaming Hoops
- Health Care System and Middle Class Will Be Harmed
- What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You!
- Health Care Safety Net Vital To Region
- Impending Medicare Changes
- Retirement Plans Are Vulnerable
- Marketing of Annuities to Senior Citizens Challenged
- “Nursing Home Tax”.
- Guardians and Medicaid Planning
- Can Mom Keep Her Home and Assets?
- When Is Three Years Not Three Years?
- 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
- The Best Health Care System in America
- Hidden Government Program Pays the Cost of Home Care
- 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?
- Financing Long Term Care and Life Care Planning
- Finding a One-Stop Shop Solution for Your Parent’s Long Term Care
- Insuring Your Retirement Funds
- WHEN I CAN NO LONGER TAKE CARE OF MYSELF
- Nursing Home Reform Law
- Planning For the Rest of Your Life- Part 2
- Planning For the Rest of Your Life -Part 1
- Why Can’t I Just Use an Off-the-Shelf Legal Form?
- What If You Live? (Part 1)
- What If You Live? (Part 2)
- Revocable Living Trusts
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- Governor Blago at the OK Corral
- Why LegalZoom is Not the Answer
- Financial Health and The Elder Care Journey
- The "Death Tax" Is Not Dead
- Business Lobbyists Push to Revive Estate Tax They Tried to Kill
- Let Us Help You with Your Elderly Loved One. Call for a Free Telephone Consultation.
- Let Us Help You Help Your Elderly Loved One. Free Telephone Consultation.
- Court Cases Give Seniors Protections
- What Every Personal Injury Attorney Needs To Know
- What is Elder Law and Why Should I Care
- ObamaCare and Long-Term Care Insurance
- Beware Of Non-Lawyers
- Oldest Boomers Now Eligible for Social Security
- How to Choose a Nursing Home
- News You Can Use
- Long-Term Care Insurance vs. Investing to Self-Insure
- Legislative Alert
- Portrait of Elder Abuse and Its Victims Becomes Clearer
- Hurricane Katrina Relief Tax Package
- Guide to 2005 IRA Gifts
- Our Concept Of Government Has Failed Us
- Who Gets What? Dividing Possessions Before Death
- Giving Caregivers a Break
- Increased Life Expectancies
- CAN I MAKE MY OWN WILL?
- Pet Trusts
- Now What Should I Do?”
Frequently Asked Questions
- 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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- Memory Loss - Legal Survival Guide
- The Guide to Medicaid Planning
- The Nuts and Bolts Guide to Veterans' Benefits
- Consumers Guide to Hospice Care in Southern Illinois
- The Complete Guide to Life Care Planning
- Parent's Guide to Special Needs Planning
- Advisor's Guide to Special Needs Planning
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The Guide to Medicaid Planning
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Consumers Guide to Hospice Care in Southern Illinois
The Complete Guide to Life Care Planning
Parents Guide to Special Needs Planning
Advisor's Guide to Special Needs Planning
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2010 West Woodriver Drive
Suite 100
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Phone: 618-549-4529
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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.