Practice Areas

Elder Law & Disability Care

Elder law is the area of law, statutes, regulations and decisions, which impact on the lives of older Americans. Elder law spans and encompasses elder care planning issues, long-term care needs, incapacity and other needs.

For issues like elder abuse, fraud recovery and various forms of neglect, it's obvious you'll need an elder abuse lawyer. However, consulting an elder law attorney can help to prevent many unnecessary situations that could potentially arise, be it in regard to elder abuse or financial and medical planning.

Elder Law is one of the fastest growing areas of law. With 80 million baby boomers moving into their "golden years," and one person attaining age 50 every seven seconds, there is a great demand for information. In addition, many of the entitlements, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and "health care reform," are being driven at the federal level.

Elder Law and disability law practices both involve the various areas of planning, counseling, educating, and advocating for senior and disabled clients concerning illness, incapacity and death.

Our focus is on the legal needs of the elderly and disabled, and we work with a variety of legal tools and techniques to meet the goals and objectives of our clients. We handle general estate planning issues and counsels clients about planning for incapacity with alternative decision making documents. Our attorneys also assists the client in planning for possible long-term care needs, including nursing home care and Medicaid.

The areas that we help our senior clients with include:

• Health and Personal Care Planning (including advance medical directives and living wills);
• Legal Planning (wills and trusts);
• Fiduciary Representation (including guardianship, trustees and personal representatives);
• Legal Capacity Counseling (advising how capacity is determined and the level of capacity required for various legal activities);
• Individual Representation (of those who care or who may be the subject of guardianship or Conservatorship procedures);
• Public Benefits Advice (including Medicaid, Medicare, social security and veteran's benefits);
• Advice on Insurance (including health, life, long-term disability and burial/funeral policies);
• Resident Rights Advocacy (including advising patients of their rights and remedies in matters such as admissions, transfer, discharge policies and quality of care);
• Housing Counseling (reviewing options and financing of options such as mortgage alternatives, life care contracts and home equity conversion);
• Employment and Retirement Advice (pension, retiree health benefits and unemployment benefits);
• Income, Estate and Gift Tax Advice;
• Counseling about Tort Claims against Nursing Homes;
• Age and/or Disability Discrimination Counseling (including employment and housing and Americans with Disabilities Act); and
• Litigation and Administrative Advocacy (including will contest, contested capacity issues and elder abuse).

Other areas include retirement benefits, Medicare, disability benefits, litigation in the areas of elder abuse and elder fraud.

If you have questions about elder law issues, contact us at Lahn & Associates, PLLC and we will be happy to discuss them with you.

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