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Mental Health and Legal Planning
While the festive decorations go up, carols play, and warm greetings arrive from friends in the mail, there are usually reminders that the holiday season is not a happy time for everyone. For some people, holidays are a reminder of loved ones lost or a trigger...
Family Caregivers Deserve Our Gratitude
2020 has provided all of us with a greater appreciation for the presence of loved ones in our lives, familiar routines, and financial stability. These aspects of daily life may regularly require adjustment for individuals serving as family caregivers. A...
Planning for Loved Ones With Special Needs
Parents and grandparents devote a considerable amount of their time and life savings to making sure that their children and grandchildren live the best possible life. Often the care provided by a parent or grandparent continues well after a child becomes an...
Dementia and its Shadow of Grief
Last week’s column discussed the concept of loss and our response of grief to the absence of someone or something important to us ( https://keystoneelderlaw.com/end-of-life/grief-and-the-path-forward/ ). There are some situations in life which cause grief which is...
Grief and the Path Forward
2020 has been a year in which a pervasive sense of loss has permeated society. Events such as the pandemic have resulted in acute losses such as the deaths of loved ones and disappearance of jobs while wildfires and hurricanes have destroyed homes and property. ...
The Family Home: Part 3 of 3
Selling a Parent’s Empty Home This is the conclusion of a three-part series which addresses various considerations related to the family home and planning for, or reacting to, a long-term care crisis. The first week’s article can be found here:...
The Family Home: Part 2 of 3
Options for Family Home Transfer This is the second of a three-part series which addresses various issues related to the family home, and planning for, or reacting to, a long-term care crisis. Last week’s article, which can be...
The Family Home: Part I of 3
Circumstances of Family Home Transfer This is the first of a three-part series to review options of how to transfer the family home from one generation to the next. This week’s article reviews a variety of circumstances that affect how options may be...
Caregiver Rest – An Impossible Dream?
Rest is often an elusive concept for caregivers. The opportunity to rest in the midst of caregiving is called “respite,” and is generally thought of as a program or service which relieves a caregiver of direct responsibility for the care recipient for a designated...
Cognitive Impairment and Voting Rights
Over the last two decades, persons over the age of 65 have demonstrated by far the greatest rate of participation in voting among all voter age groups. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, 66.1% of people aged 65 and over voted in the 2018 general election,...
