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As many of my readers and clients know, continuing legal education and keeping up-to-date on legal change is important to me and more specially to my clients who benefit by it. I regularly attend meetings of the Massachusetts branch of the National Academy of Elder...
Most people spend more time reviewing their contract for a car than understanding the contract for their loved one’s nursing home. The best approach for anyone contemplating an admission of a loved one to a facility is to understand the law AND the contract prior to...
Several year ago I drew up, for the Life Planning Network, a list of books that professionals should read to help them advise clients who prudently decide to plan for their 60s, 70s, or 80s. This week — while preparing for my elder law class at Suffolk Law School on...
JUST BECAUSE “EVERYONE” SAYS THAT MEDICARE PAYMENTS FOR REHABILITATION STOP WHEN THE PATIENT’S CONDITION “PLATEAUS” DOESN’T MAKE THAT TRUE. Many of our clients begin post-hospitalization therapies in nursing homes or rehabilitation centers thankful that Medicare will...
Daley & Nadeau, SJC 170125 The public doesn’t realize that only a small percentage of attorneys regularly appear in court. Still fewer ever appear before their state supreme courts. For a good part of my career I did appear quite regularly in courts, but only...
A client, “Liz,” is scouting facilities that might serve as a home for her mother who, in the past year, moved out of her home for health reasons and, after hospitalization, began to act inappropriately in a rehabilitation facility. Her agitation and anti-social...
