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Geriatric Assessment
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Six Areas of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment A true comprehensive geriatric assessment consists of six different clinical domains: Medical, Psychological, Social, Environmental, Legal and Financial. ...
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Newsletter Archives
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August 2010 Issue (8/16/2010) Medical Tourism: A Primer, Resolving Legal and Financial Issues in Elder Care ...
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Resolving Legal and Financial Issues in Elder Care
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Learn About o How to define and apply all aspects of a comprehensive assessment: o Medical: dementia, cancer, vascular diseases, accidents and more o Legal: competency, capacity, guardianship, wills ...
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When Is It Time to Consider Moving a Family Member with Memory Impairment?
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... the setting of assisted living, be it home with home care workers, an “assisted living” facility (for which there is no legal definition of what an assisted living facility is) or a nursing home. The ...
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Courses Offered
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... paralegals and social work professionals and can be customized accordingly. For more information or to schedule your group continuing education session, contact us at 800.352.7674 or email Chris Cooper ...
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Six Areas of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Legal
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There are six areas to review during a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment. In this video, Chris Cooper discusses legal issues facing the elderly and their families such as understanding legal documents ...
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Gearing Up for Life on the RV Road
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... reported. Thus, RV owners, stuck awaiting repairs, often have little legal recourse. RVs tend to have more problems than other vehicles because they are made in much smaller quantities than cars and ...
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Helping Older Relatives Articulate Their Long-Term Care Wishes
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... help you straighten out whatever confusion exists and can help you put specific legal documents in place and set up ways to pay medical and household bills if they’re unable to do so. If you can, involve ...
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Should You Be a Borrower or Lender? The Return of the Personal Loan
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... relationship. The best arrangements are formal – written in proper legal language, notarized and recorded in the county where the property resides, and prepared and reviewed by attorneys for both ...
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Chris Cooper, CFP®, Launches New Comprehensive Financial Planning Web Site
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... firm that provides comprehensive assessments and planning of long term care needs of disabled adults and the elderly. Assessments are made across the medical, psychological, social, environmental, legal ...
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Services
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... our clients with full legal, accounting, tax and investment services. We walk them through these processes each and every step of the way. Our clients range from the modest to wealthy, as well as pre-retirees ...
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Using a Professional Care Manager
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... care manager has been there many times. The family is experiencing it usually for the first time. Hiring a care manager should be no different than hiring an attorney to help with legal problems or a ...
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ElderCare Web Links
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... learn your legal rights! Agency for Health Care Policy and Aging – www.ahcpr.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Practical ...
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Why do you ask for my or my parents' bank statements and other financial papers?
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At ElderCare Advocates, we believe strongly that the financial aspects of a person's life are as important as the other areas that we assess: medical, legal, social, psychological, and environmental. Without ...
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Getting the Government to Pay Family Caregivers
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... This manual describes the legal restrictions on providing consulting services for veterans and offers a number of strategies to avoid running afoul of the law. Instructions are also provided on how to ...
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Helping Your Elder Manage Financial Information
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... term. It's never too soon to be prepared! Resources for Further Information Anderson, Patricia. Affairs in Order: A Complete Resource Guide to Wills and Other Financial-Legal Plans. Macmillan, 1991, ...
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Housing Options: Choosing the Right One
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... could be out of their room or apartment before being moved to a higher level of care. Know what your loved ones rights' are regarding moving, fee refunds and grievances. Make sure you know what legal ...
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How to Combat Elder Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
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... resources in your community, in your state. There are no federal statutes related to elder abuse. In most states it is illegal to neglect your child or your pet, but not your mother. Interesting? Until ...
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MAKING YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE DECISIONS WHEN YOU CAN’T
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... decisions on your behalf won’t be battling siblings or other relatives. And don’t wait until you’re older to draw up a living will. The Florida woman whose situation has sparked a years-long legal and ...
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Managing Sandwich-Generation Stress
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... document listing essential financial, legal, and medical information. Having a health-care directive, for example, is of little use if no one knows where it is and what it says. A personal data record ...