An elder law attorney may be able to assist you with any of the below issues:

• Preservation/transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment when a spouse enters a nursing home
  
  
• Medicaid
  
  
• Medicare claims and appeals
  
  
• Social security and disability claims and appeals
  
  
• Supplemental and long term health insurance issues.
  
  
• Disability planning, including use of durable powers of attorney, living trusts, "living wills," for financial management and health care decisions, and other means of delegating management and decision-making to another in case of incompetency or incapacity.
  
  
• Conservatorships and guardianships
  
  
• Estate planning, including planning for the management of one's estate during life and its disposition on death through the use of trusts, wills and other planning documents
  
• Probate 
  
  
• Administration and management of trusts and estates
  
  
• Long-term care placements in nursing home and life care communities
  
  
• Nursing home issues including questions of patients' rights and nursing home quality
  
  
• Elder abuse and fraud recovery cases
  
  
• Housing issues, including discrimination and home equity conversions
  
  
• Age discrimination in employment
  
  
• Retirement, including public and private retirement benefits, survivor benefits and pension benefits
  
  
• Health law
  
  
• Mental health law

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